augescite
Dictionary entries
- Entry →augesco, augescere, -, -:
Verb · 3rd conjugation · Intransitive
- Frequency:
- Frequent
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
grow, increase in size/amount/number; develop; prosper; rise/be swollen (river);
pl. pres. act. imp. 2nd
Examples
- P
Heauton Timorumenos
Publius Terentius Afer (Terence)
"...diem adimere aegritudinem hominibus; nam mihi quidem cotidie augescit magis de filio aegritudo, et quanto diutius abest mage..." - L
Medea
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from FABULAE
"...Pauet animus, horret: magna pernicies adest. immane quantum augescit et semet dolor accendit ipse uimque praeteritam integrat. uidi..." - P
Liber I
Publius Cornelius Tacitus from ANNALES
"...Tiberis exundationes verterentur flumina et lacus, per quos augescit; auditaeque municipiorum et coloniarum legationes, orantibus Florentinis ne Clanis..."