exsurgo
Dictionary entries
- Entry →exsurgo, exsurgere, exsurrexi, exsurrectus:
Verb · 3rd conjugation · Intransitive
- Frequency:
- Frequent
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
bestir oneself/take action; swell/rise/move/extend up/out/to higher moral level;; rise (to one's feet/from bed/moon/in revolt); stand/rear/get up; come to being;
sg. pres. act. ind. 1st
Examples
Amphitruo
Titus Maccius Plautus
"...terrore meo occidistis prae metu.' ut iacui, exsurgo. ardere censui aedis, ita tum confulgebant. ibi me inclamat Alcumena..."Metamorphoses III
Publius Ovidius Naso (Ovid) from Metamorphoses
"...consumpta est; aurora rubescere primo coeperat: exsurgo laticesque inferre recentis admoneo monstroque viam, quae ducat ad undas; ipse..."