ascendō (adsc-) scendī, scēnsus, ere ad + scando, to mount, climb, ascend, scale, go up: in equum: in caelum: ad Gitanas, L.: Delphos, to Delphi, L.: navem, T.: iugum montis, Cs.: illuc, O.: si mons erat ascendendus, Cs.

—Fig., to rise, mount, ascend, reach: virtute in altiorem locum: ad honores: super nobiles, i. e. to surpass, Ta.: gradatim ascendere vocem, to become louder: gradibus magistratuum: summum locum civitatis.