pallesco, pallăi, 3, v. inch. n. [palleo], to grow or turn pale.
I Lit.: ut qui timent sanguine ex ore decedente pallescant, Gell. 19, 4, 4: pallescere curis, Prop. 1, 13, 7: nullā pallescere culpā, Hor. Ep. 1, 1, 61: pallescet super his, will turn pale with emotion , id. A. P. 429: umbraticā vitā pallescere, Quint. 1, 2, 18; 12, 10, 76.—
II Transf., to turn pale , sallow : pallescunt frondes, wither , fade , Ov. A. A. 3, 704: viso pallescit flamma veneno, Val. Fl. 7, 586; Plin. 9, 17, 30, § 66.