excandesceres
Dictionary entries
- Entry →excandesco, excandescere, excandui, -:
Verb · 3rd conjugation · Intransitive
- Frequency:
- Common
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
catch fire, burst into flame; blaze (w/light); flare up, burn w/rage/anger;
sg. imperf. act. subj. 2nd
Examples
- L
Liber IX
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from EPISTULAE MORALES AD LUCILIUM
"...enim positum et parere diis nec excandescere ad subita nec deplorare sortem suam, sed patienter excipere fatum..." - G
SATIRICON LIBER
Gaius Petronius Arbiter (Petronius)
"...amplector, ne morientes vellet occidere, et: "Merito, inquam, excandesceres si posses proditum ostendere. Nunc inter turbam puer fugit..."