horrescunt
Dictionary entries
- Entry →horresco, horrescere, horrui, -:
Verb · 3rd conjugation
- Frequency:
- Lesser
dread, become terrified; bristle up; begin to shake/tremble/shudder/shiver;
pl. pres. act. ind. 3rd
Examples
Liber Secundus
Gaius Valerius Flaccus from ARGONAVTICA
"...nuntius hinc socios Telamon vocat ac simul ipsi horrescunt subitoque vident in sanguine puppem. nec minus in scopulos..."Appendix Perottina
Gaius Phaedrus
"...Delphos et formosum Parnasum incolis.Subito sacratae uatis horrescunt comae,tripodes mouentur, mugit adytis Religio,tremuntque lauri et ipse..."Aeneid XII
P. Vergilius Maro (Vergil) from The Aeneid
"...mare per medium (miseris, heu, praescia longe horrescunt corda agricolis: dabit ille ruinas arboribus stragemque satis, ruet omnia..."Liber III
P. Vergilius Maro (Vergil) from The Georgics
"...differt nubila; tum segetes altae campique natantes lenibus horrescunt flabris, summaeque sonorem dant siluae, longique urgent ad litora..."Liber Quintus
Marcus Tullius Cicero from De Finibus
"...abest, ad praécavendum intéllegendi astútia', iniecto terrore mortis 'horrescunt'. [32] Quis autem de ipso sapiente aliter existimat, quin..."