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vĕtĕrasco

vĕtĕrasco

to grow old

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What it meant

vĕtĕrasco — Lewis & Short

vĕtĕrasco, rāvi, 3,

I v. inch. n. [id.], to grow old: veterascens ad gloriam, Cic. Fragm. ap. Non. p. 437, 29: pati aliquid veterascere, Col. 2, 14, 2: ut nec vestimenta veterascerent, etc., wear out, Ambros. de Fide, 2, 2, 23: cum febres veteraverunt, Cels. 3, 12, 6 (dub.; al. inveter-); Sen. Cons. ad Marc. 1, 8 (dub.; Haase, verterunt): et omnes sicut vestimentum veterascent, Vulg. Psa. 101, 27.

Where it came from

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