silescite
Dictionary entries
- Entry →silesco, silescere, silui, -:
Verb · 3rd conjugation
- Frequency:
- Lesser
grow quiet;
pl. pres. act. imp. 2nd
Examples
Aeneid X
P. Vergilius Maro (Vergil) from The Aeneid
"...prima potestas, infit (eo dicente deum domus alta silescit et tremefacta solo tellus, silet arduus aether, tum Zephyri..."Poems
Gaius Valerius Catullus from Catullus' Poems
"...refert tepores, iam caeli furor aequinoctialis iucundis Zephyri silescit aureis. linquantur Phrygii, Catulle, campi Nicaeaeque ager uber aestuosae..."