languescunt
Dictionary entries
- Entry →languesco, languescere, langui, -:
Verb · 3rd conjugation
- Frequency:
- Lesser
become faint or languid or weak, wilt;
pl. pres. act. ind. 3rd
Examples
- L
Phaedra
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from FABULAE
"...medius dies et noctes breuibus praecipitat rotis), languescunt folio lilia pallido et gratae capiti deficiunt rosae, ut fulgor..." 
Liber Tertius
Gaius Valerius Flaccus from ARGONAVTICA
"...ulna.' talibus insultans iamdudum numine divae deficit, infracti languescunt frigore cursus, corda pavent, audit fremitus irasque leonum cornuaque..."- P
Liber III
Publius Cornelius Tacitus from HISTORIAE
"...omnia inconsulti impetus coepta initiis valida spatio languescunt, dilabi paulatim senatores equitesque, primo cunctanter et ubi ipse..."