(verb) : ē-scendo (exs-), di, sum, 3, and
* A. [scando].
* Neutr., to climb up, mount up, ascend from a place (cf. ascendo init.; also: scando, peto, incedo, ingredior; rare but class.).
* In gen.
* Act., to mount, ascend a thing: pars equos escendere,Sall. J. 97, 5: vehiculum,Sen. Vit. Beat. 23: suggestum,Tac. A. 13, 5; cf. rostra,id. ib. 15, 59.
* In partic., = ἀναβαίνειν, to go up from the sea-coast: Pergamum,Liv. 35, 13, 6: legati Delphos cum escendissent, etc.,id. 29, 11, 5.

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