The corpus record — Latin

tabesco

to melt gradually

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Where it lives

Lydia, Appendix Vergiliana 1 · 18.76/10k
Appendix Vergiliana 1 · 2.88/10k
Panegyricus de sexto consulatu Honorii Augusti 1 · 2.4/10k
Medea 1 · 1.77/10k
Stichus 1 · 1.61/10k
De Rerum Natura 7 · 1.44/10k
Elegiae 3 · 1.19/10k
Captivi 1 · 1.16/10k
Adelphi 1 · 1.01/10k
Adversus Judaeos Liber 1 · 0.89/10k
In L. Catilinam 1 · 0.8/10k
Carmina 1 · 0.78/10k

Densest 12 of 32 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

tābesco — Lewis & Short

tābesco, bŭi, 3,

I v. inch. n. [tabes], to melt gradually, to be dissolved or consumed; to waste, pine, or dwindle away; to decay, decline, languish (class.).

I Lit.: frigoribus durescit umor: et idem vicissim mollitur tepefactus et tabescit calore, Cic. N. D. 2, 10, 26; cf. Lucr. 6, 516; so, nives radiis (solis), id. 6, 964; 3, 581: cerae, Ov. A. A. 2, 89: sal, Cato, R. R. 88, 1; Plin. 31, 8, 44, § 95: calore Corpora, Ov. M. 15, 363.—

II Trop.: crescere itemque dies licet et tabescere noctes, Lucr. 5, 680; so, senex dies, Plaut. Stich. 5, 1, 8; Lucr. 5, 680: lumina, Cat. 68, 55: tuo maerore maceror, Macesco, consenesco et tabesco miser, Ossa atque pellis sum miser macritudine, id. Capt. 1, 2, 31: aeterno luctu, Lucr. 3, 911: molestiis, Cic. Tusc. 4, 17, 37: desiderio alicujus, id. Cat. 2, 4, 6: dolore ac miseriā, Ter. Ad. 4, 3, 12: otio, Cic. Att. 2, 14, 1: assiduis curis, Ov. Tr. 5, 1, 77: ut semel (Hypsipyle) Aemonio tabuit hospitio, Prop. 1, 15, 20 (18): amore, Ov. M. 3, 445; 4, 259: quodque aliena capella gerat distentius uber, Tabescat, i. e. is consumed with envy, Hor. S. 1, 1, 111: ex quibus (litteris) perspicio, nobis in hac calamitate tabescendum esse, Cic. Att. 3, 25 init.

In the wild

tabesco Plautus, Captivi 1.2
tabescunt Lucretius, De Rerum Natura 4.1120
tabescere Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 31.8.p1
tabescit Prudentius, Peristephanon Liber 10.525
tabescat Horace, Satyrarum libri 1.1.111
tabescere Appendix Vergiliana, Appendix Vergiliana 249

6 of 55 attestations shown.

Where it came from

No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission.

Latin text and lemmatization derived from the Perseus Digital Library (canonical-latinLit), CC BY-SA 4.0. Lewis & Short (public domain) via Perseus. This derived data is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 license.