in a speech), abire: discedere: degredi (not digredi, all three to go off or away): devertere (Cic.; to a subject, in locum): egredi: evagari (to go out of the way; ☞ in the Silver Age, exire, exspatiari, excurrere, Quint.): aberrare (to wander out of the way): declinare (to bend, as it were, or turn aside): to digress from one’s subject, aberrare, or egredi, or declinare a proposito: to digress too far from one’s subject, alicujus oratio ab eo, quod propositum est, longius aberrat: to digress from an idea, sententiam deflectere: the speech digresses to other subjects, oratio ad alia aberrat. To digress widely (in speaking), longius evagari or labi; ad alia aberrare; oratione longius progredi; extra cancellos egredi, quos sibi ipse circumdedit aliquis; exsultare; too widely, plus justo declinare (e.g., a rerum ordine, Liv.): to return to the point whence I digressed. Vid: under DIGRESSION.