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patesco
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Lewis Short
pătesco (-isco), pătŭi, 3
* V. inch. n. [pateo], to be laid open, to be opened, to open (mostly poet. and in post-Aug. prose; not in Cic.).
* Lit.: atria longa patescunt,Verg. A. 2, 483: portus patescit,id. ib. 3, 530: patescens fungus,Plin. 22, 22, 46, § 95.
* Transf., to stretch out, extend: paulo latior patescit campus,Liv. 22, 4: neque poterat patescere acies,Tac. H. 4, 78: civitates, in quas Germania patescit,id. G. 30; id. A. 2, 61 fin.; cf.: latius patescente imperio,Liv. 32, 27.
* Trop., to be disclosed, to become visible, evident, manifest: ratio patescit,Lucr. 5, 614: nunc primum certā notitiā patescente,Plin. 6, 23, 26, § 101: tum vero manifesta fides Danaumque patescunt Insidiae,Verg. A. 2, 309 (but the true reading, Cic. Phil. 14, 6, 15 B. and K., is quae res patefecit).
* V. inch. n. [pateo], to be laid open, to be opened, to open (mostly poet. and in post-Aug. prose; not in Cic.).
* Lit.: atria longa patescunt,Verg. A. 2, 483: portus patescit,id. ib. 3, 530: patescens fungus,Plin. 22, 22, 46, § 95.
* Transf., to stretch out, extend: paulo latior patescit campus,Liv. 22, 4: neque poterat patescere acies,Tac. H. 4, 78: civitates, in quas Germania patescit,id. G. 30; id. A. 2, 61 fin.; cf.: latius patescente imperio,Liv. 32, 27.
* Trop., to be disclosed, to become visible, evident, manifest: ratio patescit,Lucr. 5, 614: nunc primum certā notitiā patescente,Plin. 6, 23, 26, § 101: tum vero manifesta fides Danaumque patescunt Insidiae,Verg. A. 2, 309 (but the true reading, Cic. Phil. 14, 6, 15 B. and K., is quae res patefecit).
Charlton T. Lewis, Charles Short, A Latin Dictionary
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