torpesco

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torpesco, pŭi, 3, v. inch. n. [torpeo], to grow stiff or numb, to become useless or torpid.

Lit.:

pars corporis torpescit,

Plin. 11, 37, 89, § 220:

elaeomeli qui bibere, torpescunt,

id. 23, 4, 50, § 96:

scorpiones visā lychnide torpescunt,

id. 21, 26, 98, § 171:

torpuerat gelido lingua retenta metu,

Ov. H. 11, 82:

torpuerant molles ante dolore genae,

id. ib. 10, 44:

quid tot dextrae? torpescent in amentiā illā?

Liv. 23, 9, 6.—

Transf., to become dull, grow dim:

(margaritae) flavescunt et illae senectā rugisque torpescunt,

Plin. 9, 35, 54, § 109.—

Trop., to become listless, dull, inactive, indolent, etc.:

ne per otium torpescerent manus aut animus,

Sall. C. 16, 3; cf.:

ingenium incultu atque socordiā torpescere sinunt,

id. J. 2, 4:

deliciis et desidia torpescere,

Tac. H. 1, 71:

vigor cogebatur senio torpescere rerum,

Sil. 16, 14.

languesco, gŭi, 3, v. inch. n. [langueo], to become faint, weak, languid (class.; syn.: torpesco, marcesco).

Lit.

In gen.:

corpore languescit,

Cic. Fin. 4, 24, 65:

orator metuo ne languescat senectute,

id. de Sen. 9, 28:

corpora,

Ov. Tr. 3, 3, 39; Plin. Pan. 18:

vites languescunt,

Plin. 18, 15, 37, § 138:

cum flos, succisus aratro, languescit moriens,

droops, withers, Verg. A. 9, 436: Bacchus in amphora Languescit, becomes mild or mellow, Hor. C. 3, 16, 34:

luna languescit,

becomes obscured, Tac. A. 1, 28:

color in luteum languescens,

inclining to, Plin. 27, 13, 109, § 133.—

In partic., to be enfeebled by disease, to be ill, to languish ( poet. and post-Aug.):

nec mea languescent corpora,

Ov. Tr. 3, 3, 39:

ter omnino per quatuordecim annos languit,

Suet. Ner. 51.—

Trop., to grow languid, listless, or inactive, to decline, decrease:

consensus populi, si nos languescimus debilitetur necesse est,

Cic. Phil. 8, 2, 4:

Martia legio hoc nuntio languescet et mollietur,

id. ib. 12, 3, 8:

quare non est, cur eorum spes infringatur aut languescat industria,

should relax, id. Or. 2, 6:

militaria studia,

are on the decline, Plin. Pan. 18:

affectus omnes,

Quint. 11, 3, 2:

mens languescit,

id. 1, 2, 18: omnium rerum cupido languescit, cum facilis occasio est, Plin. Ep. 8, 20, 1:

paulatim atrocibus irae languescunt animis,

Sil. 13, 325:

illa rabies languit,

Luc. 7, 246.

ob-torpesco, pŭi, 3, v. inch. n., to become numb or stiff; to be benumbed, become insensible, lose feeling.

Lit.:

torpedo... piscium qui securi supernatantes obtorpuere, corripiens,

Plin. 9, 42, 67, § 143:

manus prae metu,

Liv. 22, 3:

manus,

Cic. Dom. 52, 135:

oculi,

Sen. Contr. 1:

squamae,

grow hard, Plin. 8, 27, 41, § 99.—

Trop.:

subactus miseriis obtorpui, Cic. poët. Tusc. 3, 28, 67: circumfuso undique pavore, ita obtorpuit, ut, etc.,

Liv. 34, 38 fin.:

obtorpuerunt quodammodo animi,

id. 32, 20, 2.