ē-scendo — Lewis & Short
ē-scendo (exs-), di, sum, 3, v. n. and
I a. [scando].
I Neutr., to climb up, mount up, ascend from a place (cf. ascendo init.; also: scando, peto, incedo, ingredior; rare but class.).
A In gen.
1 Lit.:
ex alto puteo ad summum,Plaut. Mil. 4, 4, 14:
in currum,id. Merc. 5, 2, 90:
in caelum,id. Trin. 4, 2, 100; Cic. Tusc. 1, 29, 71:
in rotam,id. ib. 5, 9, 24 Klotz N. cr.:
in rostra,id. Off. 3, 20, 80; cf.:
in contionem,id. Q. Fr. 1, 2, 5; Liv. 8, 33:
in malum (navis),id. 30, 25 fin.:
in equum,id. 23, 14, 2; 30, 18, 5:
in navem,Nep. Them. 8, 6 Nipperd. (for the more usual conscendo).—
2 Trop.:
ut ad nos contemptus Samnitium pervenit, supra non escendit,Liv. 7, 30.—
B In partic., = a)nabai/nein, to go up from the sea-coast:
Pergamum,Liv. 35, 13, 6:
legati Delphos cum escendissent, etc.,id. 29, 11, 5.—
II Act., to mount, ascend a thing:
pars equos escendere,Sall. J. 97, 5:
vehiculum,Sen. Vit. Beat. 23:
suggestum,Tac. A. 13, 5; cf.
rostra,id. ib. 15, 59.