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turgesco

to begin to swell

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Where it lives

Saturae 3 · 6.63/10k
Carmina 3 · 1.34/10k
Amores 1 · 0.64/10k
Tristia 1 · 0.44/10k
Tusculanae Disputationes 2 · 0.35/10k
Naturalis Historia 9 · 0.23/10k
De Architectura 1 · 0.17/10k
Institutio Oratoria 2 · 0.12/10k

What it meant

turgesco — Lewis & Short

turgesco, ĕre,

I v. inch. n. [turgeo], to begin to swell, to swell up, swell.

I Lit.: ne aqua in eorum corpore turgescat, Varr. R. R. 8, 9, 13: hoc (umore) aetas illa (puerilis) turgescit, Quint. 11, 3, 28: prima Ceres docuit turgescere semen in agris, Ov. Am. 3, 10, 11: brassica valido caule, Col. poët. 10, 325: virgulta, Plin. 8, 50, 76, § 200: hic satur irriguo mavult turgescere somno, i. e. to grow fat or stout, Pers. 5, 56: bullatis nugis Pagina turgescit, i. e. is full, id. 5, 18.—

II Trop.

A To swell with passion: sapientis animus numquam turgescit, numquam tumet, Cic. Tusc. 3, 9, 19: cor turgescit tristibus iris, id. poët. id. ib. 3, 9, 18: turgescit vitrea bilis, Pers. 3, 8.—

B Of speech, to be inflated, turgid: genus dicendi, quod immodico tumore turgescit, Quint. 12, 10, 73.

In the wild

turgescere Ovid, Amores 3.10.11
turgescit Cicero, Tusculanae Disputationes 3.18.p2
turgescit Sidonius Apollinaris, Carmina 22.4.173
turgescit Sidonius Apollinaris, Carmina 5.404
turgescentemque Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 25.5.p6
turgescit Cicero, Tusculanae Disputationes 3.19

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