The corpus record — Latin

excandesco

to grow hot

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Where it lives

Apocolocyntosis 1 · 3.69/10k
Divus Vespasianus 1 · 3.13/10k
Satyricon 9 · 2.96/10k
De Constantia 1 · 1.89/10k
De Brevitate Vitae 1 · 1.62/10k
Divus Claudius 1 · 1.57/10k
Nero 1 · 1.28/10k
De Clementia 1 · 1.2/10k
De Ira 2 · 0.9/10k
Tusculanae Disputationes 5 · 0.88/10k
De agri cultura 1 · 0.64/10k
Saturae 1 · 0.4/10k

Densest 12 of 20 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

excandesco — Lewis & Short

excandesco, dŭi, 3,

I v. inch. n., to grow hot, to take fire, kindle, to glow (class.).

I Lit.: cum bitumen et sulphur additum est, excandescet, Cato R. R. 95; Col. 7, 5, 16. —

II Trop., to glow, to burn, esp. with anger: haec nullam habent vim, nisi irā excanduit fortitudo, * Cic. Tusc. 4, 19, 43: id postquam resciit, excanduit, Cael. ap. Cic. Fam. 8, 12, 2; cf. Petr. 53, 8; 57, 1; Suet. Claud. 40; id. Ner. 40: in aliquem, id. Vesp. 14; cf.: in exteros, Col. 7, 12, 5: in ultionem, Flor. 2, 18, 8: excandescet in illos aqua maris, Vulg. Sap. 5, 23.

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