languesce
Dictionary entries
- Entry →languesco, languescere, langui, -:
Verb · 3rd conjugation
- Frequency:
- Lesser
become faint or languid or weak, wilt;
sg. pres. act. imp. 2nd
Examples
- M
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..." - G
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..." - G
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..."