resisto

rĕ-sisto, stĭti, 3, v. n.

I.

To stand back, remain standing anywhere (cf. resideo); to stand still, halt, stop, stay; to stay behind, remain, continue (class.; less freq. than consistere).

A.

Lit.: dabo mega kakon, nisi resistis... Mane... Mane atque asta, Plaut. Cas. 3, 6, 10; cf. id. Truc. 4, 2, 38; 41:

Resiste!

Stop! Halt! Ter. And. 2, 2, 7; id. Phorm. 5, 6, 10; Poët. ap. Sen. Ep. 89, 6:

quaeso ubinam illic restitit miles modo?

Plaut. Poen. 2, 22; cf.:

ubi restiteras?

id. Ps. 4, 1, 9:

heus! heus! tibi dico, Chaerea, inquit, restiti,

Ter. Eun. 2, 3, 46; 2, 3, 12:

ubi ille saepius appellatus aspexit ac restitit,

Caes. B. C. 2, 35; cf.:

ad haec revocantis verba resistit,

Ov. M. 1, 503:

ad omnes municipiorum villarumque amoenitates,

Tac. H. 2, 87:

restitere Romani, tamquam caelesti voce jussi,

Liv. 1, 12, 7:

neque certum inveniri poterat, obtinendine Brundisii causā ibi remansisset... an inopiā navium ibi restitisset,

Caes. B. C. 1, 25:

postero die cum duabus legionibus in occulto restitit,

id. B. G. 7, 35:

Jubam revocatum finitimo bello restitisse in regno,

id. B. C. 2, 38: Vettius negabat, se umquam cum Curione restitisse, that he had stopped (to talk), Cic. Att. 2, 24, 2 (al. constitisse):

nihil est ubi lapsi resistamus,

id. Mur. 39, 84:

hostes dat in fugam, sic ut omnino pugnandi causă restiterit nemo,

Caes. B. G. 5, 51 fin.:

qui restitissent (sc. in urbe),

Cic. Cat. 3, 2, 3; Liv. 37, 21:

nec ante restitit, quam, etc.,

id. 2, 59:

cernes saepe resistere equos,

Ov. Tr. 4, 2, 54.—

b.

Transf., of things:

sidus nusquam resistens,

Sen. Q. N. 1, praef. med.:

rota,

id. Med. 744:

proluvies ventris,

Col. 6, 7, 4.—

B.

Trop.:

nec resistet (vita) extra fores limenque carceris,

Cic. Tusc. 5, 28, 80:

quod optabile, id expetendum: quod expetendum, laudabile: deinde reliqui gradus. Sed ego in hoc resisto,

I stop at this, pause here, id. Fin. 4, 18, 50; cf. Quint. 9, 3, 55; cf.:

ad thalami clausas, Musa, resiste fores,

Ov. A. A. 2, 704:

incipit effari mediāque in voce resistit,

Verg. A. 4, 76:

cursus ad singula vestigia resistit,

Quint. 10, 7, 14:

resistens ac salebrosa oratio,

id. 11, 2, 46 Spald.:

verba resistunt,

Ov. H. 13, 121:

in secundo loco,

Plin. Pan. 10, 4.—

II.

To withstand, oppose, resist; to make opposition or resistance (so most freq.; cf.: repugno, adversor).

A.

Esp. in milit. lang., constr. usu. with dat. or absol.

(α).

With dat.:

cum legiones hostibus resisterent,

Caes. B. G. 2, 22:

paulisper nostris,

id. ib. 4, 14:

venientibus, signa inferentibus,

id. B. C. 1, 55; 1, 82 fin.:

eruptionibus,

id. B. G. 7, 24 fin.:

repentinae Gallorum conjurationi,

id. ib. 5, 27.— Pass. impers.:

alicui in acie,

Nep. Hann. 5, 4:

neque ulla multitudine in unum locum coactā, resisti posse Romanis,

Hirt. B. G. 8, 2. —

(β).

Absol.:

resistere neque deprecari,

Caes. B. G. 4, 7; 2, 23; 4, 12;

5, 7 et saep.: acerrime,

id. ib. 7, 62:

audacius,

id. ib. 2, 26:

fortiter,

id. ib. 3, 21:

fortissime,

id. ib. 4, 12:

aegre,

id. B. C. 3, 63:

caeco Marte resistunt,

Verg. A. 2, 335:

nihil de resistendo cogitabat,

Caes. B. C. 2. 34: ibi resistere ac propulsare, Sall. J. 51, 1:

nedum resistendi occasionem fuerit habiturus,

Curt. 7, 4, 4.— Impers. pass.:

ab nostris eādem ratione quā pridie resistitur,

Caes. B. G. 5, 40; so,

resisti,

id. ib. 1, 37; id. B. C. 3, 63.—

B.

In gen.:

omnia consilia consulatūs mei, quibus illi tribuno plebis pro re publicā restitissem,

Cic. de Or. 2, 11, 48:

alicui rei publicae causā,

id. Fam. 5, 2, 6:

injuriis,

id. ib. 1, 5, b, 2:

fortiter dolori ac fortunae,

id. ib. 5, 17, 3; cf.:

vix dolori,

id. ib. 4, 6, 1:

defensioni,

i. e. to reply to, id. Verr. 2, 5, 1, § 1:

factioni inimicorum,

Sall. C. 34, 2:

sceleri,

Ov. M. 10, 322:

resistere et repugnare contra veritatem non audet,

Cic. Rosc. Com. 17, 51.— Impers. pass.:

omnibus his (sententiis) resistitur,

Caes. B. C. 1, 4; Cic. Lael. 12, 41; Quint. 4, 2, 14; 6, 4, 10:

cui nec virtute resisti potest,

Ov. M. 9, 200 al. — Absol.: restitit et pervicit Cato, Cic. Att. 2, 1, 8; Caes. B. C. 3, 21:

resistentibus collegis,

Sall. J. 37, 2:

patricii contra vi resistunt,

Liv. 3, 13 Drak. N. cr.:

ne qua sibi statua poneretur, restitit,

Nep. Att. 3, 2.— Impers. pass.:

cum a Cottā primisque ordinibus acriter resisteretur,

Caes. B. G. 5, 30:

vix deorum opibus, quin obruatur Romana res, resisti posse,

Liv. 4, 43. —

b.

Transf., of things:

(plaustra) adversus tempestatem nocentem non resistunt,

Varr. R. R. 1, 13, 2; cf.:

(fundamenta) valenter resistent contra ea, quae, etc.,

Col. 1, 5, 9:

(Symplegades) Quae nunc immotae perstant ventisque resistunt,

Ov. M. 15, 339; cf.:

indejecta domus tanto malo,

id. ib. 1, 288:

radices frigori,

Plin. 19, 5, 23, § 68:

silex vehementer igni,

id. 36, 22, 49, § 169:

haec gemmarum genera scalpturae,

id. 37, 7, 30, § 104. — Hence, of medicines, to resist, act against a disease:

amiantus veneficiis resistit omnibus,

Plin. 36, 19, 31, § 139; 23, 8, 80, § 152; 30, 11, 28, § 93 al.:

vis tribunicia libidini restitit consulari,

Cic. Agr. 2, 6.— Absol.:

ut ripae fluminis cedunt aut prominentia montium resistunt,

projecting mountains advance into it, Tac. A. 2, 16:

ni vis humana resistat,

Lucr. 5, 207:

mollis ac minime resistens ad calamitates perferendas mens eorum est,

Caes. B. G. 3, 19 fin. —

III.

To rise again (very rare, and only trop.; syn. resurgo): post ex fluvio fortuna resistet, Enn. ap. Cic. Div. 1, 20, 40 (Ann. v. 47 Vahl.):

nihil est jam, unde nos reficiamus, aut ubi lapsi resistamus,

we can raise ourselves up, rise again, Cic. Mur. 39, 84.