The corpus record — Latin

perfrigesco

to grow very cold

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What it meant

per-frīgesco — Lewis & Short

per-frīgesco, frixi, 3,

I v. inch. n.

I Lit., to grow very cold, to catch cold: ne canes perfrigescant, Varr. R. R. 2, 9, 13; Plin. 31, 6, 33, § 66: ei, qui perfrixit, opus est in laconico sedere, donec insudet, Cels. 1, 3: si perfrixit, cantat bene, Juv. 7, 194. —

II Trop. (post-class.), M. Aur. ap. Front. Ep. ad M. Caes. 4, 5.

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