languesco, gŭi, 3
* V. inch. n. [langueo], to become faint, weak, languid (class.; syn.: torpesco, marcesco).
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* In gen.: corpore languescit,Cic. Fin. 4, 24, 65: orator metuo ne languescat senectute,id. de Sen. 9, 28: corpora,Ov. Tr. 3, 3, 39; Plin. Pan. 18: vites languescunt,Plin. 18, 15, 37, § 138: cum flos, succisus aratro, languescit moriens,droops, withers,Verg. A. 9, 436: Bacchus in amphora Languescit, becomes mild or mellow, Hor. C. 3, 16, 34: luna languescit,becomes obscured,Tac. A. 1, 28: color in luteum languescens,inclining to,Plin. 27, 13, 109, § 133.
* Trop., to grow languid, listless, or inactive, to decline, decrease: consensus populi, si nos languescimus debilitetur necesse est,Cic. Phil. 8, 2, 4: Martia legio hoc nuntio languescet et mollietur,id. ib. 12, 3, 8: quare non est, cur eorum spes infringatur aut languescat industria,should relax,id. Or. 2, 6: militaria studia,are on the decline,Plin. Pan. 18: affectus omnes,Quint. 11, 3, 2: mens languescit,id. 1, 2, 18: omnium rerum cupido languescit, cum facilis occasio est, Plin. Ep. 8, 20, 1: paulatim atrocibus irae languescunt animis,Sil. 13, 325: illa rabies languit,Luc. 7, 246.

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