Langueo, langues, langui, languére. Cic.To languish: to be lick, feeble, or faint: to be afeaid: to be ible: to decay or diminish.Artus confecti languent. Lucr. Corpora languent tristi morbo.Virg.Their bodies be faint with painefull siekenesse.Cor languens. Catull. Gratia languer. Sil. Ictus languens. Lucan. A feeble stroke.Languer iubar lunæ.Stat.Manu languenti tenere aliquid.Ouid.Membra languentia. Lucret. Vox languens. Cic.Vires in corpore languent.Ouid.Languere è via.Cic.To be faint and wearie with going: to be sicke of his sourney. Languere, Salust.To be afrayd: to be timorous. vt. Si vos languere senserint, feroces aderunt. Salust. Languere.Salust.To be idle and lither: to be without spirit. Languentibus cæter is in curiam impetÛ faciunt. Sal.Languere otio.Cic.With idlenesse to become without life or spirit.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
languĕo, ēre, 2, v. n. [root lag-; Gr. lagaro/s, la/gnos, lewd; Lat. laxare, lactes; cf. Sanscr. lang-a, prostitute; Gr. lagw/s, hare, lago/nes, the flanks, womb], to be faint, weary, languid (cf.: languesco, marceo, torpeo). I.Lit.A. In gen.: cum de via languerem,
was fatigued with my journey
, Cic. Phil. 1, 5, 12: per assiduos motus languere,
, Stat. Th. 12, 305.—B. In partic., to be weak, faint, languid from disease (poet. and in post-Aug. prose): languent mea membra, Tib. 3, 5, 28: tristi languebunt corpora morbo, Verg. G. 4, 252: sub natalem suum plerumque languebat, Suet. Aug. 81: si te languere audierimus, Aug. ap. Suet. Tib. 21 fin.: ego langui et aegrotavi per dies, Vulg. Dan. 8, 27; Luc. 7, 10; cf. languesco.—II.Trop., to be languid, dull, heavy, inactive, listless: languet juventus, nec perinde atque debebat in laudis et gloriae cupiditate versatur, Cic. Pis. 33, 82: nec eam solitudinem languere patior,
to pass in idleness, to be wasted
, id. Off. 3, 1, 3: otio, id. N. D. 1, 4, 7; cf.: in otio hebescere et languere, id. Ac. 2, 2, 6: si paululum modo vos languere viderint,
to be without energy
, Sall. C. 52, 18: languet amor, Ov. A. A. 2, 436: mihi gratia languet, Sil. 17, 361.—Hence, languens, entis, P. a., faint, weak, feeble, inert, powerless, inactive, languid: incitare languentes, Cic. Leg. 2, 15, 38; cf.: commovere languentem id. de Or. 2, 44, 186: nostris languentibus atque animo remissis, Caes. B. C. 2, 14: languenti stomacho esse, Cael. ap. Cic. Fam. 8, 13: irritamentum Veneris languentis, Juv. 11, 167: vox languens, Cic. Off. 1, 37, 133: cor, Cat. 64, 97: hyacinthus,