delicuit
Dictionary entries
- Entry →deliquesco, deliquescere, delicui, -:
Verb · 3rd conjugation · Intransitive
- Frequency:
- Uncommon
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
melt away, dissolve, melt; dissipate one's energy; vanish, disappear (L+S);
sg. perf. act. ind. 3rd
Examples
Metamorphoses VII
Publius Ovidius Naso (Ovid) from Metamorphoses
"...aere pennis; at genetrix Hyrie, servati nescia, flendo delicuit stagnumque suo de nomine fecit. adiacet his Pleuron..."Metamorphoses IV
Publius Ovidius Naso (Ovid) from Metamorphoses
"...tamen aethera" dixit. protinus inbutum caelesti nectare corpus delicuit terramque suo madefecit odore, virgaque per glaebas sensim radicibus..."