horresco
Dictionary entries
- Entry →horresco, horrescere, horrui, -:
Verb · 3rd conjugation
- Frequency:
- Lesser
dread, become terrified; bristle up; begin to shake/tremble/shudder/shiver;
sg. pres. act. ind. 1st
Examples
- T
Truculentus
Titus Maccius Plautus
"...obsecro, tace, Diniarche. D. Quid iam? AST. Horresco misera, mentio quotiens fit partionis, ita paene nulla tibi fuit..." - P
Adelphoe
Publius Terentius Afer (Terence)
"...purgem me. accedam ad fores. perii: horresco semper, ubi pultare hasce occipio miser. heus heus! Aeschinus..." - L
Oedipus
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from FABULAE
"...scindit unius sacri discors fauilla—genitor, horresco intuens: libata Bacchi dona permutat cruor ambitque densus regium fumus caput..."