tabescat
Dictionary entries
- Entry →tabesco, tabescere, tabui, -:
Verb · 3rd conjugation
- Frequency:
- Lesser
melt, dissolve; dry up, evaporate; waste away, dwindle away; (mental aspect);
sg. pres. act. subj. 3rd
Examples
- T
Liber III
Titus Lucretius Carus (Lucretius) from DE RERVM NATVRA LIBRI SEX
"...corpus nequeat perferre animai discidium, quin in taetro tabescat odore, quid dubitas quin ex imo penitusque coorta emanarit..." - Q
Sermones I
Quintus Horatius Flaccus (Horace) from Sermones
"...diversa sequentis, quodque aliena capella gerat distentius uber, tabescat neque se maiori pauperiorum turbae conparet, hunc atque hunc..."