A complete dictionary of the Greek and Roman antiquities explaining the obscure places in classic authors and ancient historians relating to the religion, mythology, history, geography and chronology of the ancient Greeks and Romans, their ... rites and customs, laws, polity, arts and engines of war : also an account of their navigations, arts and sciences and the inventors of them : with the lives and opinions of their philosophers / compiled originally in French ... by Monsieur Danet ; made English, with the addition of very useful mapps.

ABIRE.

This Word, besides the Signifi∣cations I have already given of it in my Latin and French Dictionary, has also some other re∣lating to the Roman Law, as Abire ab emptione, to fall off from a Bargain, to break it, to refuse to hold it: so in Cicero we find, Res abiit à Sempronio, Sempronius fail'd in this Affair, it slipt out of his hands.

Abire, a Term of Imprecation, as may appear from these Passages of the Comic Poets, Abi in malam rem, Abi in crucem, or in maximum magnum malum, Go in an ill hour, Go hang your self, Go to the Devil. The Word Abire is also us'd in the Form of granting Liberty to Slaves, as Abito quo voles, quo lubet, nihil te moror, or, Liber esto atque abito quo voles, or, Tu vero abeas, neque te quisquam moratur: I make you free, go now whither you will, no body detains you, you may go where you please. It is also used in the Law after this manner, Abiit dies actionis, the Time of Prosecution in this Cause is over, or, according to the common Phrase of the Court, There's an end of this Suit, it is quite out of doors, and cannot be brought on a∣gain.