torpescunt
Dictionary entries
- Entry →torpesco, torpescere, torpui, -:
Verb · 3rd conjugation
- Frequency:
- Lesser
grow numb, become slothful;
pl. pres. act. ind. 3rd
Examples
- L
de Providentia
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from DIALOGI
"...Illos merito quis dixerit miseros qui nimia felicitate torpescunt, quos uelut in mari lento tranquillitas iners detinet: quidquid..." - L
Medea
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from FABULAE
"...paternis sceleribus poenas date. Cor pepulit horror, membra torpescunt gelu pectusque tremuit. ira discessit loco materque tota coniuge..."