omitto

ŏmitto, īsi, issum, 3, v. a. [ob-mitto], to let go, let loose, let fall.

I.

Lit. (rare; perh. not in Cic.; cf.:

amitto, dimitto): aliquam,

Plaut. Mil. 4, 3, 2; id. Stich. 2, 2, 11:

mulierem,

Ter. Ad. 2, 1, 18:

habenas,

to let go, Tac. H. 1, 86:

arma,

to let fall, Liv. 21, 11:

animam,

to give up the ghost, to die, Plaut. Am. 1, 1, 85.—

II.

Trop. (class.).

A.

In gen., to lay aside, let go, give up, dismiss, neglect, disregard:

omittere tristitiam,

Ter. Ad. 2, 4, 3:

iracundiam,

id. ib. 4, 7, 36:

noxiam,

to leave unpunished, id. Eun. 5, 2, 14:

apparatum,

Liv. 37, 10:

nec nostrae nobis utilitates omittendae sunt,

Cic. Off. 3, 10, 42:

omitte timorem,

lay aside, id. Rep. 6, 10, 10:

voluptates,

id. Fin. 1, 10, 36:

omnibus omissis his rebus,

laying aside all those things, Caes. B. G. 7, 34:

primam navigationem ne omiseris,

do not neglect, Cic. Q. Fr. 2, 6, 3:

teneo quam optabam occasionem neque omittam,

id. Leg. 1, 2, 5:

hostes,

Just. 1, 8, 6:

ducum officia,

id. 11, 9, 8.—

B.

In partic.

1.

To pass over, say nothing of, omit, in speaking (cf., relinquo, praetereo):

ut omittam cetera quae sunt innumerabilia,

Cic. Brut. 76, 266; cf.:

ut alia omittam,

id. Quint. 22, 70:

omitto illa vetera, quod, etc.,

id. Att. 8, 3, 3:

innumerabiles viros,

id. Rep 1, 1, 1:

de reditu,

id. Pis. 22, 51:

de me,

id. Rab. Post. 12, 34; Lact. 4, 24, 6.—

2.

Of an action, to leave off, give over, cease doing any thing (syn. desino).—With inf.:

iratus esse,

Plaut. Pers. 3, 3, 26. rogare, id. ib. 4, 4, 90: lugere. Cic. Brut. 76, 266:

curare aliquid,

id. Cael. 22, 54:

mirari,

Hor. C. 3, 29, 11.—Hence, ŏmissus, a, um, P. a., negligent, heedless, remiss (ante-class.): animo esse omisso, Ter, Heaut. 5, 2, 9.— Comp.:

ab re Omissior,

in respect of property, Ter. Ad. 5, 3, 44.