The corpus record — Latin

livesco

to envy, be envious

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Where it lives

Appendix Vergiliana 1 · 2.88/10k
de consulatu Stilichonis 2 · 2.64/10k
de raptu Proserpinae 1 · 1.43/10k
De Rerum Natura 1 · 0.21/10k
Epigrammata 1 · 0.18/10k

What it meant

līvesco — Lewis & Short

līvesco, ĕre,

I v. n., to turn black and blue, become livid: digiti, Lucr. 3, 528; Scrib. Comp. 181.—*

II Trop., to envy, be envious: nec enim livescere fas est, Claud. Rapt. Pros. 3, 27.

In the wild

livescere Claudian, de consulatu Stilichonis 2.32
livescere Claudian, de consulatu Stilichonis 3.1.64
liuescunt Appendix Vergiliana, Appendix Vergiliana 450
livescere Lucretius, De Rerum Natura 3.528
Livescit Martial, Epigrammata 8.50.3
livescere Claudian, de raptu Proserpinae 3.1.27

Where it came from

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