stand aloof
stand aloof:
1. absto, stĭti, stātum, 1: if you s. further aloof, si longius abstes, Hor. A. P. 362.
2. to s. aloof from: abstĭneo, tĭnui, 2: when the greater part of the men of eloquence did not s. aloof even from Publius Sulla, cum se plurimi disertorum ne a P. quidem Sulla abstinerent, Tac. Or. 40.
3. s. aloof! procul este! Virg. Aen. 6, 258.
4. dēfĭcio, fēci, fectum, 3: to s. aloof from all men of character, a bonis omnibus d., Cic. Planc. 35, 86.
1. absto, stĭti, stātum, 1: if you s. further aloof, si longius abstes, Hor. A. P. 362.
2. to s. aloof from: abstĭneo, tĭnui, 2: when the greater part of the men of eloquence did not s. aloof even from Publius Sulla, cum se plurimi disertorum ne a P. quidem Sulla abstinerent, Tac. Or. 40.
3. s. aloof! procul este! Virg. Aen. 6, 258.
4. dēfĭcio, fēci, fectum, 3: to s. aloof from all men of character, a bonis omnibus d., Cic. Planc. 35, 86.