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
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..."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..."