• SURRENDER

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• v. Transitively, To give up, yield, concedere aliquid: cedere aliquid or aliqua re; to anybody, cedere alicui aliquid or aliqua re: concedere alicui aliquid: transcribere alicui aliquid (to surrender in writing, Dig.). To surrender a part of a thing, cedere alicui aliquid de aliqua re: to surrender one’s share in anything, cedere parte sua: to surrender the possession of a thing to anybody, cedere alicui possessione alicujus rei: to surrender the throne to anybody, concedere alicui regnum, imperium.
• Intransitively. To capitulate, arma conditione ponere: arma per pactionem tradere: certis conditionibus hosti tradi: de conditionibus tradendae urbis agere cum aliquo (to treat about capitulating, Liv., 37, 12). To surrender, ad conditiones deditionis descendere: to refuse to surrender, nullam deditionis conditionem accipere: conditiones rejicere, recusare: to consent to surrender on terms, ad conditiones accedere; certis conditionibus de deditione cum hoste pacisci.

2. s. deditio: traditio (a fortified place or town): abdicatio (of an office, muneris, Liv., 6, 16): or circumlocution by the verb.