concallesco

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

con-callesco, callui, 3, v. inch. [calleo]; lit., to become hard or callous; hence, trop., *

I Of the intellect, to become shrewd, practised (cf. calleo, I.): callidos eos appello, quorum, tamquam manus opere, sic animus usu concalluit, Cic. N. D. 3, 10, 25.—*

II Of the feelings, to become insensible, obtuse : locus ille animi nostri, stomachus ubi habitabat olim, concalluit, Cic. Att. 4, 16, 10.

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