concalesco

A New Latin Dictionary by Charlton T. Lewis Ph.D. and Charles Short, LL. D.

con-călesco, lŭi, 3, v. inch. n., to become or grow thoroughly warm, to glow.

I Prop. (rare but class.): corpora nostra ardore animi concalescunt, * Cic. Tusc. 1, 18, 42: frumenta non poterunt cito concalescere, Vitr. 6, 9; cf. Plin. 18, 30, 73, § 304; Col. 12, 52, 17.—In perf. , Plaut. Am. 1, 3, 15; Varr. R. R. 3, 16, 38; Col. 2, 18, 1; 2, 50.—

II Trop., to glow with love : concaluit, quid vis? * Ter. Heaut. 349 Don.

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