Erubesco, erubescis, erúbui, erubéscere. Ter. To blush: to be ashamed.In aliqua re erubescere.Cic.Epistola non erubescit.Cic.An epistle blusheth not.Genæ erubuêre.Ouid.Erubescere ora alicuius. Cicero. To be afraide or ashamed to come in ones sightPreces erubescere. Claud. He was ashamed to intreate.Non erubescere voluptates.Cic.Not to be ashamed to vse. Erubesco, cum infinitiuo. vt Erubesco loqui. Cice. I am ashamed to speake.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
ē-rŭbesco, bŭi, 3, v. inch. n. and a.I.Neutr., to grow red, to redden.A. In gen.: vidi te totis erubuisse genis, Ov. Am. 2, 8, 16; id. M. 4, 330; id. Pont. 2, 1, 36. —B. In partic., to redden or blush with shame, to feel ashamed.(a).Absol., with praepp. or abl.: erubui mecastor misera propter clamorem tuum, etc., Plaut. Truc. 2, 2, 36; Ter. Ad. 4, 5, 9: quas (voluptates) non erubescens persequitur nominatim, Cic. N. D. 1, 40, 111 fin.; id. Rosc. Com. 3, 8; id. Vatin. 16, 39; id. Fin. 2, 9, 28; id. Fam. 5, 12 al.: in aliqua re, id. Leg. 1, 14 fin.: aliquā re, Liv. 40, 14; Quint. 6, 4, 8; Ov. M. 5, 584; id. F. 2, 168; cf. viro, id. Tr. 4, 3, 64 al.: de sorore multum, Spart. Sever. 15; Vulg. Gen. 2, 25 et saep.—(b). With inf. (postAug. and freq.; in Cic. Leg. 1, 19, 50, pudet enim loqui is the true reading): noli erubescere collegam habere, Liv. 10, 8; 45, 35, 5; Quint. 1, 10, 13; 6, 1, 14; Verg. E. 6, 2; Curt. 6, 5, 5; Plin. Ep. 9, 27, 2; Sen. Contr. 1, 8, 3.—II.Act., with acc.: jura fidemque Supplicis erubuit,
he respected
, Verg. A. 2, 542: fratres,
to blush on account of
, Prop. 3, 14, 20 (4, 13, 20 M.): soloecismum, Sen. Ep. 95, 9 (dub. al. soloecismo).—In the part. fut. pass. erubescendus, a, um, of which one should be ashamed: ignes (amoris), Hor. C. 1, 27, 15: id urbi Romanae fore erubescendum, Liv. 38, 59, 11; Vell. 2, 130, 4; Curt. 4, 21, 4: sentina, Val. Max. 2, 7, 1: causa belli, Flor. 2, 14, 3: anni domesticis cladibus, id. 3, 12, 3.