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intumesco
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Lewis Short
in-tŭmesco, mŭi, 3
* V. n. inch., to swell up; to rise (poet. and in post-Aug. prose).
* Lit.: fluctus flatu intumescens,Plin. 2, 81, 83, § 196; id. 37, 5, 18, § 69: vidi virgineas intumuisse genas,Ov. F. 6, 700.— Of dropsical persons: intumuit suffusā venter ab undā,Ov. F. 1, 215: si partes corporis in vesicas intumuerint,Plin. 20, 6, 23, § 51.
* Transf., to rise, be elevated, of the surface of the ground: loco tamen ipso paululum intumescente,Col. 1, 4, 10; cf.: nec intumescit alta viperis humus,Hor. Epod. 16, 52.
* Trop.
* To swell up: vox intumescit,Tac. G. 3: motus,grows, increases,id. A. 1, 38: intumuere statim superbia ferociaque,Tac. H. 4, 19: jure quodam potestatis intumescere,to be puffed up, elated,Quint. 1, 1, 8: rebus secundis,Plin. Ep. 7, 31, 3: supra humanum modum,Sen. Cons. ad Polyb. 36.
* To become angry: intumuit vati,Ov. P. 4, 14, 34: Juno, quod, etc.,id. F. 6, 487; id. M. 8, 582 al.
* V. n. inch., to swell up; to rise (poet. and in post-Aug. prose).
* Lit.: fluctus flatu intumescens,Plin. 2, 81, 83, § 196; id. 37, 5, 18, § 69: vidi virgineas intumuisse genas,Ov. F. 6, 700.— Of dropsical persons: intumuit suffusā venter ab undā,Ov. F. 1, 215: si partes corporis in vesicas intumuerint,Plin. 20, 6, 23, § 51.
* Transf., to rise, be elevated, of the surface of the ground: loco tamen ipso paululum intumescente,Col. 1, 4, 10; cf.: nec intumescit alta viperis humus,Hor. Epod. 16, 52.
* Trop.
* To swell up: vox intumescit,Tac. G. 3: motus,grows, increases,id. A. 1, 38: intumuere statim superbia ferociaque,Tac. H. 4, 19: jure quodam potestatis intumescere,to be puffed up, elated,Quint. 1, 1, 8: rebus secundis,Plin. Ep. 7, 31, 3: supra humanum modum,Sen. Cons. ad Polyb. 36.
* To become angry: intumuit vati,Ov. P. 4, 14, 34: Juno, quod, etc.,id. F. 6, 487; id. M. 8, 582 al.
Charlton T. Lewis, Charles Short, A Latin Dictionary
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