The corpus record — Latin

relanguesco

to sink down fainting; to grow languid

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Where it lives

de raptu Proserpinae 1 · 1.43/10k
Ab urbe condita libri, erklärt von M. Weissenborn, books 35-38 - 35 1 · 0.79/10k
Amores 1 · 0.64/10k
De Ira 1 · 0.45/10k
De bello Gallico 1 · 0.19/10k
Letters 1 · 0.15/10k
Metamorphoses 1 · 0.13/10k
Facta et Dicta Memorabilia 1 · 0.13/10k
Letters to Atticus 1 · 0.08/10k
Ad Lucilium Epistulae Morales 1 · 0.08/10k
Naturalis Historia 1 · 0.03/10k
Ab urbe condita 1 · 0.02/10k

What it meant

rĕ-languesco — Lewis & Short

rĕ-languesco, gŭi, 3,

I v. inch. n., to sink down fainting; to grow languid or faint (class. but rare).

I Lit.: (soror) Imposito fratri moribunda relanguit ore, Ov. M. 6, 291.—

2 Transf., of the wind, to sink, slacken, lull, abate, Sen. Q. N. 5, 8, 3.— Of a star, to grow dim, Plin. 37, 9, 51, § 134.—

II Trop., to become enfeebled or relaxed, to relax: quod iis rebus relanguescere animos eorum et remitti virtutem existimarent, * Caes. B. G. 2, 15: quod autem relanguisse se dicit, that he has relaxed (in his enmity), * Cic. Att. 13, 41; cf.: animo relanguit ardor, Ov. Am. 2, 9, 27: ut taedio impetus relanguescat regis, Liv. 35, 44 (relanguerat, v. l. for elanguerat, Tac. H. 1, 46): si prima indignatio relanguescat, id. ib. 1, 33.

In the wild

relanguescere Julius Caesar, De bello Gallico 2.15.4
relanguescat Seneca, De Ira 3.12.4
relanguit Ovid, Amores 2.9b.27
relanguescunt Valerius Maximus, Facta et Dicta Memorabilia 9.1e.1
relanguescat Livy, Ab urbe condita 3.35.45.5
relanguisse Cicero, Letters to Atticus 13.41.1

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