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flacceo

flacceo · v. n

to be flabby

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Where it lives

Letters to and from Quintus 1 · 0.54/10k
Apologia 1 · 0.47/10k

What it meant

flaccĕo — Lewis & Short

flaccĕo, ēre, v. n.flaccus,

I to be flabby or flaccid.

I Lit. (post-class.): aures pendulae atque flaccentes, Lact. Opif. D. 8, 8. —

II Trop., to be faint, languid, weak; to flag, droop: flaccet, languet, deficit, Non. 110, 10 (mostly ante- and post-class.): sceptra flaccent, Att. ap. Non. 110, 12: flaccet fortitudo. Afran. ib. 13: sin flaccebunt condiciones, Enn. ap. Non. 110, 14 (Trag. v. 401 ed. Vahl.): oratio vestra rebus flaccet, spiritu viget, App. Apol. p. 290: Messala flaccet, flags, loses courage, * Cic. Q. Fr. 2, 14, 4 (cf.: Messala languet, id. Att. 4, 15, 7): erunt irrigua ejus flaccentia, i. e. dried up, Vulg. Isa. 19, 10.

In the wild

flaccet Cicero, Letters to and from Quintus 2.14.4
flaccet Apuleius, Apologia 25.p1

Where it came from

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