linquo

linquo, līqui, 3 ( part. lictus, Capitol. M. Aurel. 7 dub.), v. a. [Gr. lip- in leipô, loipos; cf. Lat. licet].

I.

To leave, quit, forsake, depart from something (cf.:

destituo, desero): urbem exsul linquat,

Plaut. Most. 3, 1, 69:

terram,

Cic. Planc. 10, 26:

nil intentatum nostri liquere poëtae,

Hor. A. P. 285:

linquenda tellus,

id. C. 2, 14, 21.— Absol., to go away:

linquebat comite ancilla una,

Juv. 6, 119.—

B.

Esp.

1.

Linqui animo, and simply linqui, to swoon, faint, Suet. Caes. 45:

linquor et ancillis excipienda cado,

Ov. H. 2, 130; so act.:

me liquit animus,

Sen. Troad. 623; Ov. M. 8, 363.—

2.

Linquere lumen, animam, vitam, to die:

lumen linque,

Plaut. Cist. 3, 12:

dulcia linquebant labentis lumina vitae,

Lucr. 5, 989; 3, 542:

linquebant dulces animas,

Verg. A. 3, 140:

animam,

Ov. M. 13, 522; Quint. Decl. 13, 6:

nec Poenum liquere doli,

Sil. 5, 38. —

II.

To leave, give up, resign, abandon something:

linquamus haec,

Cic. de Or. 3, 10, 38:

linquamus naturam, artesque videamus,

id. ib. 3, 46, 180:

linque severa,

Hor. C. 3, 8, 28:

spem,

Val. Fl. 1, 631:

inrita ventosae linquens promissa procellae,

Cat. 64, 59.—

III.

To leave in any place or condition:

erum in opsidione linquet,

Plaut. As. 2, 2, 14:

lupos apud oves,

id. Ps. 1, 2, 8. —

IV.

To leave behind:

linquere vacuos cultoribus agros,

Luc. 9, 162:

sui monumentum insigne pericli,

Val. Fl. 5, 231:

pharetram hospitio,

id. 1, 661.—

V.

Impers. pass.: linquitur, it is left, it remains.— With ut and subj.: linquitur, ut totis animalibus adsimulentur. Lucr. 2, 914: et vix cernere linquitur undas, Silv. 4, 628.