Lewis Short
(v. n.P. a.) : pallĕo, ui, 2, v. n.Sanscr. palitas, gray; Gr. πελλός, πελιδνός, πολιός; cf. pullus
* To be or look pale.
* Lit.: sudat, pallet,Cic. Phil. 2, 34, 84: pallent amisso sanguine venae,Ov. M. 2, 824: metu sceleris futuri,id. ib. 8, 465: timore,id. F. 2, 468: mea rugosa pallebunt ora senectā,Tib. 3, 5, 25; morbo,Juv. 2, 50: fame,Mart. 3, 38, 12.— Esp. of lovers: palleat omnis amans; hic est color aptus amanti,must look pale,Ov. A. A. 1, 729; Prop. 1, 9, 17.—Also through indolence, Mart. 3, 58, 24.
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* To lose its natural color, to change color, to fade: et numquam Herculeo numine pallet ebur,always remains white,Prop. 4 (5), 7, 82.sidera pallent,Stat. Th. 12, 406: ne vitio caeli palleat aegra seges,Ov. F. 1, 688: pallet nostris Aurora venenis,id. M. 7, 209: pallere diem, Luc 7, 177
* With acc.: multos pallere colores,to change color often,Prop. 1, 15, 39.
* To grow pale, be sick with desire, to long for, eagerly desire any thing: ambitione malā aut argenti pallet amore,Hor. S. 2, 3, 78: nummo,Pers. 4, 47.
* To grow pale at any thing, to be anxious or fearful.—With dat.: pueris,i. e. on account of,Hor. Ep. 1, 7, 7: ad omnia fulgura,Juv. 13, 223: Marco sub judice palles?Pers. 5, 8.
* With acc.: scatentem Belluis pontum,Hor. C. 3, 27, 26: fraternos ictus,Petr. 122; Pers. 5, 184.
* To grow pale by excessive application to a thing: iratum Eupoliden praegrandi cum sene palles,read yourself pale over Eupolis,Pers. 1, 124: nunc utile multis Pallere, i. e. studere,Juv. 7, 96: vigilandum, nitendum, pallendum est,of close study,Quint. 7, 10, 14.—Hence, pallens, entis, P. a., pale, wan (poet. and in post-Aug. prose).
* Lit.: simulacra modis pallentia miris,Lucr. 1, 123: umbrae Erebi,Verg. A. 4, 26: animae,id. ib. 4, 242: regna,of the Lower World,Sil. 13, 408; cf. undae,i. e. the Styx, the Cocytus,Tib. 3, 5, 21: persona,Juv. 3, 175: pallens morte futurā,Verg. A. 8, 709: pallentes terrore puellae,Ov. A. A. 3, 487.
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* Trop., pale, weak, bad: fama,pale,Tac. Or. 13 fin.: mores,bad, vicious,Pers. 5, 15.
* Poet., that makes pale: morbi,Verg. A. 6, 275: philtra,Ov. A. A. 2, 105: curae,Mart. 11, 6, 6: oscula,Val. Fl. 4, 701.
Charlton T. Lewis, Charles Short, A Latin Dictionary