Lewis Short
(verb) : con-scendo, ndi, nsum, 3, and n. [scando].
* In gen., to mount, to ascend (in prose rare before the Aug. per.)
* Lit.
* Esp., a nautical t. t., to go on board a ship, to embark, take ship, etc. (class. in all periods and species of composition; cf. ascendo); constr. with the acc., in, or absol.
* Trop. (very rare): laudis carmen,Prop. 2 (3), 10, 23. ad ultimum nefas,Quint. Decl. 377.
* With acc.: cymbam piscatoriam. Afran. ap. Non. p. 535, 30: navem,Caes. B. G. 4, 23; id. B. C. 2, 4; Cic. Fam. 3, 10, 3; Nep. Dat. 4, 3: naves,Liv. 22, 19, 8; 37, 11, 8; cf. in pass.: conscensā nave,Just. 31, 4, 3; and: navibus conscensis,id. 12, 10, 1: navigium,Suet. Caes. 58: cavatum ex materiā alveum,Vell. 2, 107, 1: puppim,Ov. F. 2, 95: classem,Verg. A. 10, 155; Ov. M. 13, 422; cf.: aequor navibus,to navigate,Verg. A. 1, 381: ibi classem, Auct. B. Afr. 10, 2.
* With in: in navem,Cic. Fam. 14, 17, 2: in phaselum,id. Att. 14, 16, 1.
* Absol.: velim quam primum conscendas ad meque venias,Cic. Q. Fr. 2, 2, 4 al.: conscende nobiscum, et quidem ad puppim,id. Fam. 12, 25, 5; Liv. 22, 19, 10; 37, 11, 10; * Quint. 4, 2, 41; Ov. Tr. 1, 2, 41: in Siciliam,to embark for Sicily,Liv. 31, 29, 6.—With ab and abl. of place: Pompeium a Brundisio conscendisse,Cic. Att. 9, 14, 3: ab eo loco conscendi,id. Phil. 1, 3, 7: ab hortis Cluvianis,id. Att. 14, 16, 1; cf. Epheso,id. ib. 6, 8, 4: Thessalonicae conscendere jussi,Liv. 44, 23, 9.
Charlton T. Lewis, Charles Short, A Latin Dictionary