con-scendo, ndi, nsum, 3, v. a. and n. [scando].
I In gen., to mount, to ascend (in prose rare before the Aug. per.)
A Lit.
α With acc.: currum, Lucr. 6, 47; Prop. 2 (3), 18, 13; Ov. Tr. 3, 8, 1; Curt. 5, 10, 12: montes, * Cat. 64, 126; Prop. 1, 6, 3: vallum, Caes. B. G. 5, 39 fin. : equos, Ov. M. 14, 820; Liv. 29, 2, 16; Suet. Calig. 51: aethera, Ov. M. 3, 299; Stat. S. 3, 1, 7; Val. Fl. 2, 444: culmen summum, Sil. 3, 510: scopulum, Verg. A. 1, 180: rogum, id. ib. 4, 646: tribunal, Suet. Tib. 17; id. Galb. 10 al.—
β With in : in equi costas, Lucr. 5, 1296: in equos, Ov. M. 6, 222: in montem, Petr. 116, 1.—
B Trop. (very rare): laudis carmen, Prop. 2 (3), 10, 23: ad ultimum nefas, Quint. Decl. 377.—
II Esp., a nautical t. t., to go on board a ship, to embark, take ship , etc. (class. in all periods and species of composition; cf. ascendo); constr. with the acc., in , or absol.
α With acc.: cymbam piscatoriam. Afran. ap. Non. p. 535, 30: navem, Caes. B. G. 4, 23; id. B. C. 2, 4; Cic. Fam. 3, 10, 3; Nep. Dat. 4, 3: naves, Liv. 22, 19, 8; 37, 11, 8; cf. in pass. : conscensā nave, Just. 31, 4, 3; and: navibus conscensis, id. 12, 10, 1: navigium, Suet. Caes. 58: cavatum ex materiā alveum, Vell. 2, 107, 1: puppim, Ov. F. 2, 95: classem, Verg. A. 10, 155; Ov. M. 13, 422; cf.: aequor navibus, to navigate , Verg. A. 1, 381: ibi classem, Auct. B. Afr. 10, 2.—
β With in : in navem, Cic. Fam. 14, 17, 2: in phaselum, id. Att. 14, 16, 1.—
γ Absol. : velim quam primum conscendas ad meque venias, Cic. Q. Fr. 2, 2, 4 al.: conscende nobiscum, et quidem ad puppim, id. Fam. 12, 25, 5; Liv. 22, 19, 10; 37, 11, 10; * Quint. 4, 2, 41; Ov. Tr. 1, 2, 41: in Siciliam, to embark for Sicily , Liv. 31, 29, 6.—With ab and abl. of place: Pompeium a Brundisio conscendisse, Cic. Att. 9, 14, 3: ab eo loco conscendi, id. Phil. 1, 3, 7: ab hortis Cluvianis, id. Att. 14, 16, 1; cf. Epheso, id. ib. 6, 8, 4: Thessalonicae conscendere jussi, Liv. 44, 23, 9.