The corpus record — Latin

viresco

to grow

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Where it lives

Epithalamium de nuptiis Honorii Augusti 1 · 4.57/10k
Cathemerina 1 · 1.36/10k
Georgicon 1 · 0.71/10k
Peristephanon Liber 1 · 0.57/10k
Res Rustica, Books I-IX 2 · 0.25/10k
De Rerum Natura 1 · 0.21/10k
Thebais 1 · 0.16/10k
Metamorphoses 1 · 0.13/10k
Noctes Atticae 1 · 0.09/10k
Ad Lucilium Epistulae Morales 1 · 0.08/10k
Naturalis Historia 1 · 0.03/10k

What it meant

vĭresco — Lewis & Short

vĭresco, ĕre,

I v. inch. n. [1. vireo], to grow or become green or verdant.

I Lit.: rami arboribus, Lucr. 1, 252: gramina, Verg. G. 1, 55; Ov. M. 4, 394; Plin. 15, 24, 29, § 101; Sen. Thyest. 54; Ambros. in Luc. 7, 127.—

II Trop., to shoot forth, be developed, Claud. Cons. Prob. et Olybr. 63 (but in Lucr. 1, 674 the correct read. is vigescat; cf. id. 1, 757).—

B To flourish, prosper, grow: populi Romani adulescentia, quā maxime viruit, Flor. 1, 22, 1: virescit vulnere virtus, Furius ap. Gell. 18, 11, 4, and ap. Non. p. 188, 8.

In the wild

virescunt Lucretius, De Rerum Natura 1.252
virescit Prudentius, Peristephanon Liber 12.40
virescunt Seneca, Ad Lucilium Epistulae Morales 11_13.87.20
virescere Statius, Thebais 4.654
virescere Columella, Res Rustica, Books I-IX 3.21.9
virescunt Vergil, Georgicon 1.55

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