Definition of tabesco
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Orthography ID = 2058412
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LNS
tābescō, tābescere, tābuī, -
tabes, tabeo
verb (3rd conjugation)
  1. to melt gradually, to be dissolved or consumed
  2. to waste, pine, dwindle away
  3. to decay, decline, languish
Abbreviations
tābesco, bui, 3, v. inch. n. [tabes], to melt gradually, to be dissolved or consumed; to waste, pine, or dwindle away; to decay, decline, languish (class.). Lit.: frigoribus durescit umor: et idem vicissim mollitur tepefactus et tabescit calore, Cic. N. D. 2, 10, 26; cf. Lucr. 6, 516; so, nives radiis (solis), id. 6, 964; 3, 581: cerae, Ov. A. A. 2, 89: sal, Cato, R. R. 88, 1; Plin. 31, 8, 44, ยง 95: calore Corpora, Ov. M. 15, 363.

— Trop.: crescere itemque dies licet et tabescere noctes, Lucr. 5, 680; so, senex dies, Plaut. Stich. 5, 1, 8; Lucr. 5, 680: lumina, Cat. 68, 55: tuo maerore maceror, Macesco, consenesco et tabesco miser, Ossa atque pellis sum miser macritudine, id. Capt. 1, 2, 31: aeterno luctu, Lucr. 3, 911: molestiis, Cic. Tusc. 4, 17, 37: desiderio alicujus, id. Cat. 2, 4, 6: dolore ac miseriā, Ter. Ad. 4, 3, 12: otio, Cic. Att. 2, 14, 1: assiduis curis, Ov. Tr. 5, 1, 77: ut semel (Hypsipyle) Aemonio tabuit hospitio, Prop. 1, 15, 20 (18): amore, Ov. M. 3, 445; 4, 259: quodque aliena capella gerat distentius uber, Tabescat, i. e. is consumed with envy, Hor. S. 1, 1, 111: ex quibus (litteris) perspicio, nobis in hac calamitate tabescendum esse, Cic. Att. 3, 25 init.
 
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