assido

as-sīdo ( ads-, Ritschl, Fleck., B. and K., Dietsch; ass-, Roth), sēdi, no sup., 3, v. n., to sit down, seat one's self somewhere, sit (syn. assideo).

a.

Absol.: Adsido; accurrunt servi;

soccos detrahunt,

Ter. Heaut. 1, 1, 72:

adsidamus, si videtur,

Cic. Ac. 1, 4, 14:

Assidentem (Caesarem) conspirati specie officii circumsteterunt,

Suet. Caes. 82.—

b.

With an adjunct of place:

in sellā apud magistrum adsideres,

Plaut. Bacch. 3, 3, 28:

hic,

id. Stich. 1, 2, 35:

hic in arā,

id. Rud. 3, 3, 26:

eo mulier adsidat,

Cato, R. R. 157, 11:

ut aves videre possint, ubi adsidant,

Varr. R. R. 3, 5, 3:

super aspidem,

Cic. Fin. 2, 18, 59:

aquila in culmine domūs assedit,

Suet. Tib. 14:

humi assidens,

id. Ner. 53 al. —

c.

With acc. (cf. assideo, II. A.):

Hiempsal dextrā Adherbalem adsedit,

Sall. J. 11, 3:

se utrumque adsidere jussit,

Aur. Vict. Caes. 10.—Of an orator who sits down after he has finished his speech: Peroravit aliquando, adsedit;

surrexi ego,

he sat down, took his seat, Cic. Rosc. Am. 22:

subito adsedit, cum sibi venenis ereptam memoriam diceret,

id. Or. 37, 129:

Set ubi adsedit, Catilina etc.,

Sall. C. 31, 7; 53, 1.