Fatisco, fatiscis, fatiscere. Virg.To thincke or cleaue: to open, chappe, or gape: to ware faint or feeble: to be wearie: to become barraine, as the earth with ouermuch tilling. Non desunt qui fatisco putent scribendum, quasi affatim hisco. Area fatiscit.Virg.The floore chappeth. Fatiscere. Colum. To waxe faint: to be wearie: to trie.Equi sine calciatu in longiore itinere fatiscunt. Plin. Horses Vnshodde in long iorney tyre and be wearie.Non Tiberius, non accusatores fatiscebant.Tacit.Were not wearie.Animæ natura fatiscit fessa æuo. Lucret. Faileth: decayeth.Fatiscit laxatuiqúe chelis.Stat. Clamore fatiscere. Star. Cord a longo sudore fatiscunt.Stat.Mens expugnata fatiscit.Stat.Solum satiscit. Colum. The lande waxeth barraine with continuall orcupying.
Fessus, Adiect á Fero fers, deriuatum: Dicitur tam de animo, quam de corpore. Wearie.Fessus de via.Cic.Wearie with going or trauailing.Ætate fessus.Virg. Bello. Cic.Cursu.Liu.Wearie of running.Viarum errore. Sil. Inedia fluctibusqúe fessum recreare.Cic.Luctu fessa.Ouid. Plorando fessus. Hirt. Studiorum pondere.Ouid. Videndi satietate. Lucr. Valetudinibus.Tacit. Viâ. Ouid.Vitâ. Plin. Wearie of his life.Vulnere.Liu. Artus fessi.Virg.Wearie limmes.Caput fessum viridi summisit in herba.Ouid.Corpora fessa.Virg. Dies fessa. Stat.Genis fessis obrepsit somnus. Sen. Latus fessum depone sub lauru. Horat. Rest thy wearie body vnder this bay tree.Membra fessa Ouid. Fessæ naues. Virg.Oculos fessos furari labori.Virg.Pectus fessum curis.Senec.Senectus fessa. Luca. Viator fessus. Hor. Virtus fessa.Senec. Vox mihi fessa loquendo. Ouid.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
fătisco, ĕre, v. n. (ante-class. in the dep. form fătiscor, ci; v. the foll.) [cf. Gr. xa/tis, xatizw; Lat. fatigo, fessus, adfatim; for the f = x, cf. Gr. xu, xe/w, xeu/sw; Lat. fundo, fons], to open in chinks or clefts, to gape or crack open, to fall apart, tumble to pieces (poet. and in post-Aug. prose). I.Lit.: (naves) laxis laterum compagibus omnes Accipiunt inimicum imbrem rimisque fatiscunt, Verg. A. 1, 123: saxis solida aera fatiscunt, id. ib. 9, 809: area neu pulvere victa fatiscat, id. G. 1, 180: (pinguis tellus) haud umquam manibus jactata fatiscit, id. ib. 2, 249: viscera flammis (with torreri), Ov. M. 7, 554: heu canimus frustra, nec verbis victa fatiscit Janua, Tib. 1, 5, 67 (Müll. patescit): camelo ungues in longiore itinere sine calceatu fatiscunt, Plin. 11, 45, 105, 254.—(b). In the dep. form: non delubra deum simulacraque fessa fatisci?Lucr. 5, 308.—II.Trop., to grow weak, become exhausted, to droop, faint, decrease (ante-class. in the dep. form): solum segetibus fatiscit, Col. 2, 13, 3: scrofa celerrime fatiscit, quae plures educat, id. 7, 9 fin.: ipse exercitusque per inopiam et labores fatiscebant, Tac. A. 14, 24: scriptores dum copia fatiscunt, id. ib. 6, 7: viri in segnitiem, Val. Fl. 3, 395: manibusque nesciis fatiscere, Tac. A. 16, 5: donec fatisceret seditio, id. H. 3, 10.— Poet., with inf.: exsatiata fatiscet Mater Achilleis hiemes affringere bustis, Stat. S. 5, 1, 35.—(b). In the dep. form: aevo, Lucr. 3, 458: altera irā, altera vulneribus fatiscuntur, Varr. ap. Non. 479, 13; Pac. ib. 307, 12; Att. ib. 10 and 479, 10 and 14; Fronto, Princ. Hist. p. 318 ed. Mai.
fessus, a, um, P. a. [cf. Sanscr. hā-, gahāmi, relinquo; Gr. xi=ros, xh=ra, xwri/s; Lat. ad-fatim, fatigo], wearied, tired, fatigued; worn out, weak, feeble, infirm (class.; esp. freq. in poets; syn.: fatigatus, defessus, lassus, languidus). I. Prop., of living beings: Romani quamquam itinere atque opere castrorum et proelio fessi lassique erant, tamen, etc., Sall. J. 53, 5: de via fessus, Cic. Ac. 1, 1, 1: fessum inedia fluctibusque recreare, id. Planc. 10, 26: Veientes bello fessi, id. Div. 1, 44, 100: militiā fessae cohortes, Hor. C. 3, 4, 38: plorando fessus sum, Cic. Att. 15, 9, 1: satiate videndi, Lucr. 2, 1038: curāque viāque, Ov. M. 11, 274: somno, Tib. 1, 3, 88: malis, Ov. M. 9, 293: aetate, Verg. A. 2, 596; cf. annis, Ov. M. 9, 440: valetudinibus, Tac. H. 3, 2: fessi vomere tauri, Hor. C. 3, 13, 11: elephanti fessi aegritudine, Plin. 8, 1, 1, 3: exercito corpore fessus, Sall. J. 71, 1; 70, 2: cum tibi librum Sollicito damus aut fesso, Hor. Ep. 2, 1, 221: inde Rubos fessi pervenimus, id. S. 1, 5, 94; so, viator, id. ib. 1, 5, 17: pastor, id. C. 3, 29, 22: Graii (sc. bello), id. ib. 2, 4, 11: boves, id. Epod. 2, 63.—(b). With gen. (poet.): fessi rerum,
exhausted with events
,
misfortunes
, Verg. A. 1, 178: fessus bellique viaeque, Stat. Th. 3, 395: trepidi rerum fessique salutis,
despairing of safety
, Sil. 2, 234.—With acc.: agmina fessa gradum, Sil. 4, 40.—II.Transf., of inanim. and abstr. things (mostly poet. and in post-Aug. prose): alter fessum vulnere, fessum cursu trahens corpus, Liv. 1, 25, 11; cf. Hor. C. 2, 7, 18; Lucr. 4, 848: (Phoebus) qui salutari levat arte fessos Corporis artus, i. e.
sick
,
diseased
, Hor. Carm. Sec. 63: vox fessa loquendo, Ov. Tr. 3, 3, 85: fessa aetas, i. e.
the weakness of age
, Tac. A. 14, 33: fessa aetate Galbae, id. H. 1, 12: domus aetatis spatio ne fessa vetusto Obruat,
worn out
,
decayed
, Lucr. 3, 774; cf. id. 5, 308: cardines fessi et turbati, Plin. 36, 15, 24, 120: (amnes) In mare deducunt fessas erroribus undas, Ov. M. 1, 582: naves, Verg. A. 1, 168; 5, 29: puppes, Ov. M. 6, 519; Tib. 2, 5, 46: carinae, Ov. M. 11, 393; id. A. A. 3, 748: vela, Prop. 3 (4), 21, 19: fessa dies, spent, i. e. drawing to a close, Stat. S. 2, 2, 48: fessae res,
critical
,
precarious
, Plin. 2, 7, 5, 18; also,
misfortunes
,
calamities
, Verg. A. 3, 145: rebus succurite fessis, id. ib. 11, 335: deligendum esse qui fessis rebus succurreret, Tac. A. 15, 50.