dēsiliō iluī, ultus, īre de + salio, to leap down, dismount: de navibus, Cs.: de raedā: ex equis, Cs.: ab equo, V.: curru ab alto, O.: biiugis, V.: altis turribus, H.: in medias undas, O.: ad pedes, to dismount, Cs.: desilite commilitones, jump overboard, Cs.: Desiluit, dismounted, O.

—Poet.: unde loquaces Lymphae desiliunt, H.: aetheriā domo (of lightning), Pr.

—Fig., to leap headlong, venture heedlessly: in artum, H.