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* V. inch. n. [tumeo], to begin to swell, to swell up (poet. and in postAug. prose).
* Lit.: inflatum mare cum subito penitusque tumescit, Cic. poët. Div. 1, 7, 13: vi maria,Verg. G. 2, 479: freta ventis,Ov. M. 1, 36: inflata colla,id. ib. 6, 377: vulnera,Tac. H. 2, 77: fluvius tabe nivis,Luc. 10, 244: suco herba,Sen. Herc. Fur. 936: matura virginitas,Claud. Epith. 125.
* Trop., to swell up, become swollen with passionate excitement, to become excited, violent, ready to burst forth: rumpor et ora mihi pariter cum mente tumescunt (with anger),Ov. H. 8, 57: rabie,Claud. IV. Cons. Hon. 242.
* To be puffed up with pride or insolence: mens aut languescit aut contra tumescit inani persuasione,Quint. 1, 2, 18; so with pride: serviles animi alte,Claud. in Eutr. 1, 176: Ly dia Pactoli fonte,id. II. Cons. Stil. 61: (monet) operta tumescere bella,are fermenting, threatening to break out,Verg. G. 1, 465; cf.: tumescens bellum,Vell. 2, 15, 2.