secessio

sēcessĭo, ōnis, f. [secedo, I. B.].

I.

(Acc. to secedo, I. B. 1.) A going aside to consult, etc., a withdrawal:

seductiones testium, secessio subscriptorum,

Cic. Mur. 24, 49:

milites vesperi secessionem faciunt,

Caes. B. C. 1, 20, 1:

primores, secessione factā, etc.,

having withdrawn, Liv. 21, 14, 1. —

II.

(Acc. to secedo, I. B. 2.) A political insurrectionary withdrawal or separation; a schism, secession (the prevailing signif. of the word;

syn.: defectio, seditio): ultima rabies secessio ab suis habebatur,

Liv. 7, 40, 2:

secessionem tu illam existimasti, Caesar, initio, non bellum,

Cic. Lig. 6, 19:

tum demissi populo fasces, tum provocationes omnium rerum, tum secessio (pern. secessiones) plebis, etc.,

Cic. Rep. 1, 40, 62 Mos. N. cr.; cf. Liv. 2, 32 sq.; 3, 39; Caes. B. C. 1, 7:

per secessionem armati Aventinum occupavere,

Sall. J. 31, 17:

in secessione Crustumerinā,

Varr. L. L. 5, § 81 Müll.; cf.:

secessio ab decemviris facta est,

Liv. 3, 51:

in Aventinum montem secessionem factam esse,

id. 2, 32.