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* accessa, ae, f., in later Lat. = accessus, the flood-tide, lect. dub., Serv. ad Verg. A. 1, 244 (cf. Salmas. Exerc. p. 203).
accessĭbĭlis, e, adj. [accedo], accessible (late Lat.), Tert. Adv. Prax. 15.
accessĭbĭlĭtas, ātis, f. [accessibilis], accessibility, Tert. Adv. Prax. 15.
accessĭo, ōnis, f. [accedo], a going or coming to or near, an approach.
- I. In gen.: quid tibi in concilium huc accessio est? why comest thou hither? Plaut. Trin. 3, 2, 86; cf.: quid tibi ad hasce accessio est aedīs prope? id. Truc. 2, 2, 3; Cic. Univ. 12: ut magnas accessiones fecerint in operibus expugnandis, sallies, Caes. B. Alex. 22: suo labore suisque accessionibus, i. e. by his labor of calling on people, by his visits, Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 53 fin.
- II. In part.
- A. In medicine, t. t., the access, attack, or paroxysm of a disease, Cels. 2, 12; 3, 3 sq.; Sen. Ep. 85, 12; id. N. Q. 6, 18, 6; Suet. Vesp. 23 al.
- B. A coming to in the way of augmentation, an increase, addition.
- 1. In abstracto: paucorum annorum, Cic. Lael. 3, 7: pecuniae, Nep. Att. 14, 2: fortunae et dignitatis, Cic. Fam. 2, 1; 7, 6; 10, 9; id. Rep. 2, 21: odii, Caes. B. Alex. 48: dignitatis, Vell. 2, 130 fin.
- 2. The thing added, the addition, or accession: in concreto: Scaurusaccessionem adjunxit aedibus, added a new part, Cic. Off. 1, 39, 138; so id. Att. 16, 16. Thus Syphax is called, accessio Punici belli, as not being the chief enemy in the Punic war, but, as it were, an appendage to the war, Liv. 47, 7; so in Pliny: turbā gemmarum potamus—et aurum jam accessio est, and gold is only accessory, a mere appendage, 33 prooem. fin.
- C. In rhetor., an addition that makes a definition complete: nisi adhiberet illam magnam accessionem, Cic. Ac. 2, 35, 112; so id. Fin. 2, 13.
- D. The addition to every kind of fee or tax (opp. decessio), Cato R. R. 144: decumae, Cic. Rab. 11; so id. Verr. 2, 3, 33, § 116 al.
* accessĭto, āre, doub. freq. v. [id.], to approach repeatedly: eodem ex agro, Cat. ap. Gell. 18, 12.
1. accessus, a, um, Part. of accedo.
2. accessus, ūs, m. [accedo], a going or coming to or near, an approaching, approach (syn. aditus; opp. recessus, discessus).
- I. Lit.: accessus nocturnus ad urbem, Cic. Mil. 19: (bestiarum) ad res salutares (opp. recessus), id. N. D. 2, 12 fin.: accessus prohibet refugitque viriles, Ov. M. 14, 636: solisaccessus discessusque, Cic. N. D. 2, 7; of the tide, id. Div. 2, 14 fin.; of a disease, Gell. 4, 2; of soldiers: difficilis, Caes. B. Afr. 5: maritimus, from the sea: pedestris, on the land side, id. B. Alex. 26: loci, to a place, id. B. Hisp. 38.
- B. Transf.
- 1. Poet. of permission to approach, access, admittance (cf. aditus): dare accessum alicui, Ov. Pont. 2, 2, 41: negare, id. Her. 10, 64.
- 2. The place by which one approaches, a passage, an entrance (in sing. and plur.), Verg. A. 8, 229; Suet. Caes. 58; Flor. 2, 12, 5; for ships, Liv. 29, 27, 9.
- II. Fig.
- A. An approaching, approach: ita pedetemptim cum accessus a se ad causam facti, tum recessus, an approach to the matter, Cic. Fam. 9, 14, 7.
- B. An accession, increase: accessu istius splendoris, Cod. Th. 6, 35, 7.