The corpus record — Latin

aegresco

to become ill

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Where it lives

Thebais 4 · 0.64/10k
De Rerum Natura 2 · 0.41/10k
Epistulae. Selections. 1 · 0.23/10k
Aeneid 1 · 0.16/10k
Punica 1 · 0.13/10k
Annales 1 · 0.11/10k
Naturalis Historia 1 · 0.03/10k

What it meant

aegresco — Lewis & Short

aegresco, ĕre, 3,

I v. inch. n. [aegreo], to become ill, to grow sick (not in Cic.).

I Lit.: morbis aegrescimus ĭsdem, * Lucr. 5, 349: aegrescunt corvi, Plin. 10, 12, 15, § 32.—

II Fig.

A To grow worse: violentia Turni exsuperat magis, aegrescitque (i. e. asperior fit) medendo, * Verg. A. 12, 45: in corde sedens aegrescit cura parentis, Stat. Th. 1, 400.—

B To be troubled, anxious, afflicted, grieved: rebus laetis, Stat. Th. 2, 18: his anxia mentem Aegrescit curis (mentem, Gr. acc.), id. ib. 12, 193: sollicitudine, Tac. A. 15, 25 fin.

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