The corpus record — Latin

floresco

to begin to blossom

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Where it lives

Pro M. Marcello 1 · 3.61/10k
Pro M. Caelio 1 · 1.18/10k
De Rerum Natura 3 · 0.62/10k
Argonautica 2 · 0.54/10k
De Carnis Resurrectione 1 · 0.44/10k
Brutus 1 · 0.4/10k
De Divinatione 1 · 0.36/10k
Metamorphoses 1 · 0.19/10k
Letters 1 · 0.15/10k
Naturalis Historia 3 · 0.08/10k

What it meant

flōresco — Lewis & Short

flōresco, ĕre,

I v. inch. n. [floreo], to begin to blossom or flower, to come out in blossom (class.).

I Lit.: antequam (plantae) gemmas agant et florescere incipiant, Varr. R. R. 1, 30: florescunt tempore certo arbusta, Lucr. 5, 670: puleium aridum florescere ipso brumali die, Cic. Div. 2, 14, 33.—

II Trop., to begin to flourish or prosper, to grow into repute: nolite hunc nunc primum florescentem pervertere, Cic. Cael. 32, 79: hoc (Hortensio) florescente, Cassius est mortuus, id. Brut. 88, 303: cui quidem ad summam gloriam eloquentiae florescenti ferro erepta vita est, id. de Or. 3, 3, 11 (efflorescenti, Orell.).—Of things: patria nostra florescit, Plin. Ep. 5, 12, 1: illa senescere, at haec contra florescere cogunt, Lucr. 2, 74; cf. id. 5, 895.—

B To abound in (cf. floreo, I. B. 3.): armata florescant pube novales, Val. Fl. 7, 77.!*? The part. fut. pass. in neuter signif.: EODEM DIE (i. e. IV. Calend. Mai.) AEDIS FLORAE, QVAE REBVS FLORESCENDIS PRAEEST, DEDICATA EST, Calend. Praenest. ap. Inscr. Orell. II. p. 389; cf. Lachm. ad Lucr. p. 44.

In the wild

florescunt Lucretius, De Rerum Natura 5.670
florescet Cicero, Pro M. Marcello 12
florescentem Cicero, Pro M. Caelio 79
florescens Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 18.27.p1
florescunt Valerius Flaccus, Argonautica 7.363
florescere Lucretius, De Rerum Natura 2.74

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