(verb) : aegrōto, āvi, ātum, 1, aegrotus
* To be ill, sick.
* Lit., of men and brutes: vehementer diuque,Cic. Clu. 62: gravissime aegrotans,id. Fin. 2, 13: graviter,id. Tusc. 1, 35: leviter,id. Off. 1, 24: periculose,id. Att. 8, 2: aegrotavit usque ad mortem,Vulg. Isa. 38, 1: aegrotare timenti,Hor. Ep. 1, 7, 4: morbo,id. S. 1, 6, 30: aegrotare coepit,Vulg. 2 Reg. 13, 6: quia armentum aegrotet in agris,Hor. Ep. 1, 8, 6.—Of plants: (vites) aegrotant,Plin. 17, 24, 37, § 226: aegrotant poma ipsa per se sine arbore,id. 17, 24, 37, § 228.
* Fig.
* Of the mind: ea res, ex qua animus aegrotat,Cic. Tusc. 4, 37, 79: aegrotare animi vitio,Hor. S. 2, 3, 307.
* Of other abstr. things, to languish, etc. (cf. jaceo): in te aegrotant artes,Plaut. Trin. 1, 2, 34; 1, 1, 8: languent officia, atque aegrotat fama vacillans, duties are neglected, reputation sickens and staggers, * Lucr. 4, 1124.

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