The corpus record — Latin

elanguesco

to grow faint

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Where it lives

Galba 1 · 3.63/10k
Ab urbe condita libri, erklärt von M. Weissenborn, books 35-38 - 35 1 · 0.79/10k
Epitome Rerum Romanorum 2 · 0.76/10k
Ab urbe condita, books 21-25 - 23 1 · 0.68/10k
Ab urbe condita, books 1-5 - 5 1 · 0.62/10k
Historiae 3 · 0.58/10k
Ab Urbe Condita, books 1-2 - 1 1 · 0.57/10k
Historiae Alexandri Magni 2 · 0.27/10k
Argonautica 1 · 0.27/10k
De Medicina 2 · 0.2/10k
Noctes Atticae 2 · 0.18/10k
Thebais 1 · 0.16/10k

Densest 12 of 17 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

ē-languesco — Lewis & Short

ē-languesco, gui, 3,

I v. inch. n., to grow faint, feeble, to slacken, relax (not ante-Aug.): ut elanguescendum aliena ignavia esset, Liv. 1, 46, 7; so in the praes., id. 35, 45; Vell. 2, 111 fin.; Plin. 9, 30, 48, § 91; Sil. 4, 140 al.—In the perf.: elanguimus, patres conscripti, nec jam ille senatus sumus qui, etc., Tac. H. 4, 42 fin.; Suet. Galb. 1: differendo deinde elanguit res, Liv. 5, 26, 3; cf.: neque tamen elanguit cura hominum eā morā, id. 23, 23, 8; so Gell. 16, 3, 2; Val. Fl. 4, 572.

In the wild

elanguescendum Livy, Ab urbe condita 1.1.46.7
elanguescens Silius Italicus, Punica 4.140
elanguescit Aulus Gellius, Noctes Atticae 3.1.10
elanguit Seneca the Elder, Controversiae 7.1.15
elanguerat Tacitus, Historiae 1.47
elanguit Livy, Ab urbe condita, books 1-5 - 5 p26

6 of 26 attestations shown.

Where it came from

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