sĕnesco

assenēsco (ad-senesco), ere, alt werden, altern bei usw., Tert. exhort. cast. 13.

cōn-senēsco, senuī, ere, ergreisen, vergreisen, I) ergreisen = ins Greisenalter (ins hohe Alter) gelangen, ein hohes Alter erreichen, von Pers., ibi (Tusculi) per quattuordecim annos cum uxore, Eutr.: in agris amoenissimis, Eutr.: hāc casā (v. Baucis u. Philemon), Ov.: Smyrnae, Suet.: apud Parthos ignobili servitute, Eutr.: in Puteolano praedio usque ad centesimum annum, Suet. fr. 105. p. 135. 17 R. – v. lebl. Subjj., haud ulla carina consenuit, Prop. 3, 7, 36. – II) im üblen Sinne, vergreisen, a) eig., zum alten Manne werden, bes. vor der Zeit, alt und grau werden, alt und stumpf werden, alt und schwach werden, die Jugendfrische od. die Jugendkraft verlieren, verkommen, sich verliegen, α) v. leb. Wesen: Alexandro alieno in agro bellanti exercitus consenuisset, Liv.: sin inclusae consenescunt (columbae), Varr.: propter pedes (Läusen) consenescunt pulli, Varr. – insontem, indemnatum in exsilio c., Liv.: in ultimo ac remotissimo terrarum orbis angulo, Vell.: in manibus alcis et gremio maerore et lacrimis, Cic.: iuventus ad Veios consenescit, Liv.: c. circa Casilinum Cumasque et Nolam (v. Hannibal), Liv.: insulam petere ab Romanis, ubi in contemptu atque inopia consenescat, Liv.: in umbra c., Quint.: in commentariis rhetorum c., Quint.: c. in Sicilia sub armis, Liv.: denis vicenisque annis inter bella iuventus consenuit, Sen.

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rhet. – β) von den Kräften des Körpers u. Geistes, alt und stumpf werden, consenescunt vires atque deficiunt, Cic.: animum quoque patris consenuisse in affecte corpore, Liv. – γ) v. Lebl., alt werden, an Frische verlieren, verkommen, quam ob rem ova aut inaequaliter maturescunt aut consenescunt, Varr.: consenuit haec tabula carie, Plin.: consenuit vitis vitio soli, Col. – b) übtr.: α) übh. an innerer Kraft, Stärke gleichs. alt und stumpf werden, erlahmen, quid attinere cum mortali corpore uno civitatis, quam immortalem esse deceat, pati consenescere vires? Liv.: invidia habet repentinos impetus, interposito spatio et cognitā causā consenescit, Cic.: tumor consenuit militum, Amm.: oratio, quae ferri debet et fluere, dimetiendis pedibus ac perpendendis syllabis consenescit, Quint. – β) an polit. Geltung, an polit. Ansehen verlieren, veraltern, nicht mehr aufkommen können, v. Pers., omnes illius partis auctores ac socios nullo adversario consenescere, Cic.: otio et tranquillitate rei publicae c., Cic. – von Abstr., consenuisse iam secum et rogationes promulgatas et vim omnem tribuniciae potestatis, Liv.: veteres leges aut ipsā vetustate consenuisse aut novis legibus esse sublatas, Cic.: noster Magnus, cuius cognomen unā cum Crassi Divitis cognomine consenescit, Cic.

dē-senēsco, senuī, ere, hinschwinden, allmählich verrauchen, ira belli desenuisset, Sall. hist. fr. 1, 93 (95).

īn-senēsco, senuī, ere, in od. bei od. über etwas alt werden, libris, Hor.: negotiis, Tac.: nostris malis, Ov.: singulis actionum partibus, Quint.

con-sĕnesco, nŭi, 3, v. inch., to grow old together, to grow or become old or gray (class. in prose and poetry).

Lit.:

(Baucis et Philemon) illā consenuere casā,

Ov. M. 8, 634: socerorum in armis, * Hor. C. 3, 5, 8; cf.:

in patriā meā,

Ov. Tr. 4, 8, 12:

alieno in agro (exercitus),

Liv. 9, 19, 6:

in exilio,

id. 35, 34, 7:

in ultimo terrarum orbis angulo,

Vell. 2, 102, 3:

circa Casilinum Cumasque,

Liv. 30, 20, 9:

Smyrnae,

Suet. Gram. 6.—

Meton.

In Quint., to grow old or gray in an occupation, to follow it too long:

in commentariis rhetorum,

Quint. 3, 8, 67 in quā umbrā, id. 10, 5, 17; and:

in unā ejus specie,

id. 12, 11, 16.—

In a more general sense (causa pro effectu), to become weak, infirm, powerless, to waste away, fall into disuse, decay, fade, lose force, etc.

With living subjects:

prae maerore atque aegritudine,

Plaut. Stich. 1, 3, 63; cf. id. Capt. 1, 2, 25:

in manibus alicujus et gremio maerore et lacrimis,

Cic. Clu. 5, 13; Liv. 35, 34, 7:

(columbae) si inclusae consenescunt,

Varr. R. R. 3, 7, 6; so id. ib. 3, 9, 14:

veturno,

Col. 7, 5, 3.—

Trop., to lose consideration or respect: omnes illius partis auctores ac socios nullo adversario consenescere. Cic. Att. 2, 23, 2.—

With inanimate subjects: ova consenescunt, Varr R. R. 3, 9, 8; cf.:

vinea soli vitio consenuit,

Col. 4, 22, 8:

veru in manibus,

Plaut. Rud. 5, 2, 15; cf.:

consenuit haec tabula carie,

Plin. 35, 10, 36, § 91: haut ulla carina Consenuit, not one has grown old, i. e. all have perished, Prop. 3, 7 (4, 6), 36: (nobis) viget aetas, animus valet; contra illis annis atque divitiis omnia consenuerunt, Sall. C. 20, 10 Kritz and Fabri:

quamvis consenuerint vires atque defecerint,

Cic. Sen. 9, 29;

with vires,

Liv. 6, 23, 7:

animum quoque patris consenuisse in adfecto corpore,

id. 9, 3, 8: noster amicus Magnus, cujus cognomen unā cum Crassi Divitis cognomine consenescit. Cic. Att. 2, 13, 2:

veteres leges aut. ipsā suā vetustate consenuisse aut novis legibus esse sublatas,

id. de Or. 1, 58, 247;

so of laws,

Liv. 3, 31, 7:

invidia,

Cic. Clu. 2, 5:

rabies et impetus,

Flor. 3, 3, 5:

oratio dimetiendis pedibus,

Quint. 9, 4, 112.

sĕnex, sĕnis (nom. and acc. of the neutr. plur. in the posit. and of the neutr. sing. in the comp. do not occur; orig. gen. sĕnicis, Plaut. Fragm. ap. Prisc. p. 724 P.), adj. [Sanscr. sana-s, old; Gr. henos, henê, old; cf.: senium, senesco, senatus, senilis, senectus, Seneca] ( comp. senior), old, aged, advanced in years; and subst., an aged person, an old man, old woman (from the latter half of the fortieth year onward; v. infra the passages from Gell. 10, 28, 1, and from Liv. 30, 30; cf.: annosus, longaevus, vetulus).

Adj.:

(paterfamilias) vendat boves vetulos, plostrum vetus, ferramenta vetera, servum senem, etc.,

Cato, R. R. 2, 7:

hic est vetus, vietus, veternosus senex,

Ter. Eun. 4, 4, 21: nam vere pusus tu, tua amica senex, Papin. ap. Varr. L. L. 7, § 28 Müll.:

turpe senex miles, turpe senilis amor,

Ov. Am. 1, 9, 4:

cervi,

id. A. A. 3, 78:

latrans,

Phaedr. 5, 10, 7:

porci,

Juv. 6, 159:

cygni,

Mart. 5, 37, 1:

mulli,

id. 10, 30, 24:

Bacchus (i. e. vinum),

id. 13, 23; cf.

of the same, auctumni,

id. 3, 58, 7:

Damascena (pruna),

id. 5, 18, 3 et saep.:

admodum senex,

Cic. Sen. 4, 10:

nemo est tam senex qui se annum non putet posse vivere,

id. ib. 7, 24:

nomen Nostra tuum senibus loqueretur pagina seclis,

in later ages, Verg. Cir. 40.— Comp.:

grandior seniorque,

Lucr. 3, 955:

Cato, quo erat nemo fere senior temporibus illis,

Cic. Lael. 1, 5:

quae vis senior est quam, etc.,

id. Leg. 2, 4, 9:

corpora seniora,

Cels. 5, 28, 4:

anni,

Ov. M. 15, 470:

dens,

Mart. 9, 58, 11:

cadus,

id. 9, 94, 2.—Rarely with aetate:

Sophocles, aetate jam senior,

Val. Max. 4, 3, 2 ext.:

nobis adulescentibus seniores in agendo facti praecipere solebant, ne, etc.,

Quint. 5, 6, 6:

senior ut ita dicam, quam illa aetas ferebat, oratio,

more mature, Cic. Brut. 43, 160.—

Subst.:

ut tum ad senem senex de senectute, sic, etc.,

Cic. Lael. 1, 5: quos ait Caccilius comicos stul [p. 1670] tos senes, etc.... ut petulantia magis est adulescentium quam senum... sic ista senilis stultitia senum levium est... Appius et caecus et senex, etc.... senem, in quo est adulescentis aliquid, probo, etc., id. Sen. 11, 36 sq.:

senem in patriam revertentem, unde puer profectus sum (the words of Hannibal, who was not yet fifty years of age),

Liv. 30, 30:

mixta senum ac juvenum densentur funera,

Hor. C. 1, 28, 19; cf.:

haec recinunt juvenes dictata senesque,

id. Ep. 1, 1, 55:

aeque neglectum pueris senibusque nocebit,

id. ib. 1, 1, 26:

ter aevo functus senex,

i. e. Nestor, id. C. 2, 9, 14:

tun' capite cano amas, senex nequissime?

Plaut. Merc. 2, 2, 34:

quo senex nequior nullus vivit,

id. Cas. 5, 1, 10:

te sene omnium senem neminem esse ignaviorem,

id. ib. 2, 3, 28 et saep.— Fem.:

hanc tot mala ferre senem,

this old woman, Tib. 1, 6, 82; Val. Fl. 1, 349; Stat. Th. 5, 149.— Comp., an elder, elderly person; sometimes (esp. in the poets) also for senex, an aged person:

facilius sanescit puer vel adulescens quam senior,

Cels. 5, 26, 6:

si quis Forte coheredum senior male tussiet,

Hor. S. 2, 5, 107:

vix ea fatus erat senior (i. e. Anchises),

Verg. A. 2, 692; so,

= senex,

Ov. M. 1, 645; 2, 702; 11, 646; 12, 182; 12, 540; id. F. 4, 515; Stat. S. 1, 3, 94; id. Achill. 2, 383 al.:

(Servius Tullius) seniores a junioribus divisit,

Cic. Rep. 2, 22, 39; cf.

of the same: C. Tubero in Historiarum primo scripsit, Servium Tullium... eos (milites) ab anno septimo decimo ad annum quadragesimum sextum juniores, supraque eum annum seniores appellasse,

Gell. 10, 28, 1:

centuriae juniorum seniorumque,

Liv. 1, 43.— Poet.:

centuriae seniorum simply, for seniores,

Hor. A. P. 341:

curae fuit consulibus et senioribus Patrum, ut, etc.,

Liv. 2, 30:

consulares ac seniores (opp. juniores Patrum),

id. 3, 41:

omnium seniorum, matrum familiae, virginum precibus et fletu excitati,

Caes. B. C. 2, 4:

sapienter, ut senior, suaserat,

Flor. 1, 16, 10:

juniores a senioribus consilium petiverunt,

id. 2, 6, 26:

haec... laeti audiere juvenes, ingrata senioribus erant,

Curt. 8, 1, 27:

hinc inter juniores senesque orta contentio est,

id. 8, 1, 31.—In eccl. Lat., an elder in the synagogue or church, Vulg. Ezech. 7, 26; id. 2 Johan. 1.