The corpus record — Latin

descensus

fin. !*?

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Catilina 1 · 0.94/10k
Elegiae 1 · 0.4/10k
De bello Gallico 2 · 0.39/10k
Aeneid 1 · 0.16/10k
Adversus Marcionem 1 · 0.12/10k
De Medicina 1 · 0.1/10k
Res Gestae 1 · 0.08/10k
Ab urbe condita 2 · 0.04/10k

What it meant

1. dēscensus — Lewis & Short

dēscensus, a, um,

Part., v. descendo

I fin. !*?.

2. dēscensus — Lewis & Short

dēscensus, ūs, m.descendo,

I a descent (rare; not in Cic. and Caes.).

I In gen.: qua illi descensus erat, Sall. C. 57, 3.—

B Concr., a descending way, a descent: difficilis et praeruptus, Hirt. B. G. 8, 40, 4 and 5; cf.: facilis descensus Averno, Verg. A. 6, 126: ipso descensu Jovis speluncae, Plin. 16, 26, 46, § 110: montis, Vulg. Luc. 19, 37.—*

II In partic. (acc. to descendo, no. I. B. 5), obscene, a lying down, Varr. R. R. 2, 5, 13.

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