Senesco, scis, scere. Pli. To grow in age: to beginne to decay: to draw to an end.Tacitis senescimus annis.Ouid.Aeuo & macie senescere. Lucret. Fama senescere dicitur quis.Liu.When ones fame and renowme beginneth to decay.Amor senescet.Ouid.Loue wil begin to weare awaye and decay.Seneseens in salem caseus. Plin. Theese as it increaseth in age, waring stil more salt.Ciuitas otio senescit.Liu.Decayeth.Consilia senescunt.Liu.Counsailes with long delay waxe nothing worth.Equus senescens. Hor. Fama senescens. Tac. Fame wearing away.Forma senescit.Ouid.H umus lassa senescit.Ouid.The ground wearie of bearing becommeth barraine.Hyems senescit.Cic.Winter draweth toward an end.Laus senescit. Ci. Praise weareth away and decayeth.Literæ senescunt. Pli. iun Learning beginneth to decay.Lona senescens, cui Crescens opponitur. Varro. The moone toward the wane.Morbus seoescit. Ci. The disease beginneth to weare awaye.Pugna senescir. Li. The battel beginneth to quaile & drawe to an end.Rumores senescunt. Tac. Do weare away.Seges alta imbre nimio senescit.Tacit.Is marde or corrup. ted.Virtus paulatim euicta senescit. Sil Vertue by little and lit. tle ouercome decayeth and waxeth feeble.Vitia senelcunt.Liu.Vices weare away.
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sĕnesco, nŭi, 3 (gerundive: senescendi homines, Varr. L. L. 6, 11 Müll. N. cr.), v. inch. n. [seneo], to grow old, become aged; to grow hoary.I.Lit. (rare): ita sensim aetas senescit, Cic. Sen. 11, 38; cf.: tempora labuntur tacitisque senescimus annis, Ov. F. 6, 771: senescente jam Graeciā, Cic. Rep. 1, 37, 58: solve senescentem mature equum, Hor. Ep. 1, 1, 8: arbores senescunt, Plin. 16, 27, 50, 116: Solon significat se cottidie aliquid addiscentem senescere. Val. Max. 8, 7, 14.—In perf.: avus (Augusti) tranquillissime senuit, Suet. Aug. 2: ego senui et progressioris aetatis sum, Vulg. Josne, 23, 2.—In gerundive: longissimum spatium senescendorum hominum id (seclum) putarant, Varr. L. L. 6, 11 Müll. N. cr.—II.Transf.A. For the usual consenescere, to grow old or gray in an occupation, etc., i. e. to linger too long over it: inani circa voces studio senescunt, Quint. 8, prooem. 18.—B. (Causa pro effectu.) To decay or diminish in strength; to grow weak, feeble, or powerless; to waste away, fall off, wane, decline, etc. (the prevailing signif. of the word in prose and poetry; cf. consenesco; while inveterasco is to grow better by age). 1. Of living subjects (a favorite expression of Livy; perh. not in Cic., but cf. consenesco, II. 2.): Hannibalem jam et famā senescere et viribus, Liv. 29, 3 fin.; cf. of the same, id. 22, 39: otio senescere, id. 25, 7: non esse cum aegro senescendum, id. 21, 53: dis hominibusque accusandis senescere,
to pine away
, id. 5, 43 Drak.; cf.: amore senescit habendi, Hor. Ep. 1, 7, 85: socordiā, Tac. A. 1, 9; Val. Max. 8, 13, 7: ne (agni) desiderio senescant, Varr. R. R. 2, 2, 17.— Of doves, Col. 8, 8, 4: quod antiquatur et senescit prope interitum est, Vulg. Heb. 8, 13.—2. Of things: quaedam faciunda in agris potius crescente lunā quam senescente,
in the waning of the moon
, Varr. R. R. 1, 37, 1; so, luna (opp. crescens), Cic. N. D. 2, 37, 95; Plin. 2, 9, 6, 42: arbores hiemali tempore cum lunā simul senescentes, Cic. Div. 2, 14, 33: nunc pleno orbe, nunc senescente (al. senescentem) exiguo cornu fulgere lunam, Liv. 44, 37: continuā messe senescit ager,
becomes exhausted
,
worn out
, Ov. A. A. 3, 82: prata, Plin. 18, 28, 67, 259: uniones, i. e. grow pale or dim, id. 9, 35, 56, 115; cf. smaragdi, id. 37, 5, 18, 70: caseus in salem,