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..."- G
Appendix Perottina
Gaius Phaedrus
"...Delphos et formosum Parnasum incolis.Subito sacratae uatis horrescunt comae,tripodes mouentur, mugit adytis Religio,tremuntque lauri et ipse..." - P
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..." - P
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..." - M
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..."