DESCEND Copy link • DESCENDTo come down, descendere (from higher ground, ex superioribus locis; from a mountain, citadel, etc., de monte, arce, etc.: to the plain, in planitiem, campum, aequum locum, or aequum only): degredi (to go down): se demittere to let one’s self down (e.g., in convallem): labi or delabi, from, ex, etc. (also delabi a, de..): defluere (insensibly and slowly): to descend into battle (1 Sam., 26), descendere in aciem (Liv.): to descend or fall to the ground, desidere; subsidere. ImPROP., To descend to our own times (of customs, traditions, etc), haec in tempora, or usque ad nostra tempora durare; ad nostram memoriam manere (of written or other monuments); tradi ab antiquis usque ad nostram aetatem (of a custom, manners, etc.): to descend gradually from remote antiquity to our own days, a summa memoria gradatim descendere ad hanc aetatem. To come down to what is low or mean, descendere ad aliquid: delabi ad aliquid, in aliquid (e.g., in hoc vitium scurrile, Cic.; ad impatientiam, Tac.): demittere se in or ad aliquid (e.g., ad servilem patientiam; in adulationem, both Tac.): to descend to the level of brutes, omnem humanitatem exuere: to descend gradually from worse to worse, declinare in pejus: to descend to a state of slavery, ad servitium (ad servitia) cadere. To descend or be descended = derive one’s origin from anybody, ortum, oriundum esse (in prose, in declaring the person from whom anybody descends, the preposition a, or ab, must be used; but in declaring the rank out of which anybody descends, the preposition a, or ab, must be omitted): originem trahere ab aliquo; originem ducere a or ex aliquo (to descend from or derive his origin from, etc.). To descend from a ship, = disembark, e navi exire; in terram exire; also exire only; (e) navi egredi; also egredi only; escendere; exscensionem facere. To descend or make a descent upon, irruptionem or incursionem facere in, etc.; upon a country, terram invadere; in terram irruptionem facere; with forces, terram invadere cum copiis; copias in fines hostium introducere; in hostes irrumpere, irruere, impressionem facere. Of the descent of property, etc., pervenire ad aliquem (e.g., hereditas ad filiam pervenit, Cic.): venire alicui (e.g., major hereditas unicuique nostrum venit, etc., Cic., Caecin., 26, 74).