pătesco — Lewis & Short
pătesco (-isco), pătŭi, 3,
I v. inch. n. [pateo], to be laid open, to be opened, to open (mostly poet. and in post-Aug. prose; not in Cic.).
I Lit.:
atria longa patescunt,Verg. A. 2, 483:
portus patescit,id. ib. 3, 530:
patescens fungus,Plin. 22, 22, 46, § 95. —
B Transf., to stretch out, extend:
paulo latior patescit campus,Liv. 22, 4:
neque poterat patescere acies,Tac. H. 4, 78:
civitates, in quas Germania patescit,id. G. 30; id. A. 2, 61 fin.; cf.:
latius patescente imperio,Liv. 32, 27.—
II Trop., to be disclosed, to become visible, evident, manifest:
ratio patescit,Lucr. 5, 614:
nunc primum certā notitiā patescente,Plin. 6, 23, 26, § 101:
tum vero manifesta fides Danaumque patescunt Insidiae,Verg. A. 2, 309 (but the true reading, Cic. Phil. 14, 6, 15 B. and K., is quae res patefecit).