verb intransitive

per-sĕdĕo

2nd PP per-sĕdēre · 3rd PP persēdi · 4th PP persessum · conj. 2nd

to remain sitting; to sit; stay long ••

to remain sitting, to sit or stay long anywhere (not in Cic. or Cæs.): at neque quo pacto persederit umor aquai Visumst, Lucr. 1, 307: totā nocte in speculis, Curt. 9, 9, 23: in equo dies noctesque persedendo, Liv. 45, 39: qui multis apud philosophum annis persederint, Sen. Ep. 108, 5: etiam meridie, Suet. Claud. 34.—

by extension •

Transf., of frost: pruinae perniciosior natura, quoniam lapsa persidet gelatque, Plin. 17, 24, 37, § 222.

Perseus ID: n35477 Key: persedeo