The corpus record — Latin

pallesco

to grow

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Where it lives

Panegyricus de tertio consulatu Honorii Augusti 1 · 7.24/10k
Carminum minorum corpusculum 3 · 3.55/10k
De Arte Poetica liber 1 · 3.24/10k
De Providentia 1 · 2.44/10k
Thyestes 1 · 1.59/10k
de raptu Proserpinae 1 · 1.43/10k
Cathemerina 1 · 1.36/10k
de consulatu Stilichonis 1 · 1.32/10k
Epistulae 1 · 1.01/10k
Fabulae Aesopiae 1 · 0.91/10k
Ars Amatoria 1 · 0.67/10k
Argonautica 2 · 0.54/10k

Densest 12 of 22 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

pallesco — Lewis & Short

pallesco, pallăi, 3,

I v. inch. n. [palleo], to grow or turn pale.

I Lit.: ut qui timent sanguine ex ore decedente pallescant, Gell. 19, 4, 4: pallescere curis, Prop. 1, 13, 7: nullā pallescere culpā, Hor. Ep. 1, 1, 61: pallescet super his, will turn pale with emotion, id. A. P. 429: umbraticā vitā pallescere, Quint. 1, 2, 18; 12, 10, 76.—

II Transf., to turn pale, sallow: pallescunt frondes, wither, fade, Ov. A. A. 3, 704: viso pallescit flamma veneno, Val. Fl. 7, 586; Plin. 9, 17, 30, § 66.

In the wild

pallescere Valerius Flaccus, Argonautica 2.526
pallescere Claudian, Panegyricus de tertio consulatu Honorii Augusti 1.203
pallescit Sidonius Apollinaris, Carmina 2.410
pallescit Claudian, de raptu Proserpinae 2.1.114
pallescant Aulus Gellius, Noctes Atticae 19.4.4
pallescit Statius, Thebais 1.547

6 of 28 attestations shown.

Where it came from

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