languesc
Dictionary entries
- Entry →languesco, languescere, langui, -:
Verb · 3rd conjugation
- Frequency:
- Lesser
become faint or languid or weak, wilt;
sg. pres. act. imp. 2nd
Examples
Liber XI
Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (Quintilian) from INSTITUTIONES
"...vires suas nisi adiuvatur adseveratione dicentis: adfectus omnes languescant necesse est, nisi voce, vultu, totius prope habitu corporis..."Poems
Gaius Valerius Catullus from Catullus' Poems
"...deserta, ostentant omnia letum. non tamen ante mihi languescent lumina morte, nec prius a fesso secedent corpore sensus..."Liber VII
Gaius Plinius Caecilius Secundus (Pliny the Younger) from EPISTVLARVM LIBRI DECEM
"...solum ne voluptates istae satietate languescant. Saluta paulisper, quo sit tibi iucundius salutari; terere in hac turba..."