lay down Copy link Outline I. To abandonII. To state a proposition • lay down: I. To abandon: Phr.. to l. down one's arms, ab armis discedere, Cic. Ph. 8, fin.: Caes.: also, arma ponere, Caes. B. G. 4, 37: to l. down (the badges) of office, secures p., Hor. Od. 3, 2, 19: to lay down an office, magistratum, imperium deponere, Caes. B. G. 7, 33: Quint.: magistratu abire (when the office is vacated in due course), Cic. Leg. 3, 20, 47: esp. in the case of a dictator, dictatura se abdicare, Liv. 3, 29 (but also d. deponere, Quint. 3, 8, 53): v. to abdicate. II. To state a proposition: stătuo, i, ūtum, 3 to l. it down that pleasure is the chief good, voluptatem summum bonum s., Cic. Off. 1, 2, 5: where a command is implied, foll. by ut or ne: cf. Cic. Ph. 2, 38, 97, statuitur ne sit Creta provincia: v. to decide, determine.
LAY DOWN Copy link • LAY DOWNPROPR., to put down, ponere; deponere: to lay one’s self down, decumbere. FIG., to give up (an office), abdicare munus or (usually) se munere; abire magistratu or honore; abscedere munere (Liv., 9, 3); magistratum deponere (of magistrates). FIG., to advance (an opinion), sententiam dicere.