pubesco
Οὐ γὰρ ἀργίας ὤνιον ἡ ὑγίεια καὶ ἀπραξίας, ἅ γε δὴ μέγιστα κακῶν ταῖς νόσοις πρόσεστι, καὶ οὐδὲν διαφέρει τοῦ τὰ ὄμματα τῷ μὴ διαβλέπειν καὶ τὴν φωνὴν τῷ μὴ φθέγγεσθαι φυλάττοντος ὁ τὴν ὑγίειαν ἀχρηστίᾳ καὶ ἡσυχίᾳ σῴζειν οἰόμενος → For health is not to be purchased by idleness and inactivity, which are the greatest evils attendant on sickness, and the man who thinks to conserve his health by uselessness and ease does not differ from him who guards his eyes by not seeing, and his voice by not speaking
Latin > English (Lewis & Short)
pūbesco: bŭi, 3,
I v. inch. n. [id.], to reach the age of puberty, become pubescent.
I Lit. (class.; syn. adulesco): molli pubescere veste, to put on the down of puberty, Lucr. 5, 672: flore novo, Sil. 3, 79: Herculem, cum primum pubesceret, etc., Cic. Off. 1, 32, 118: flos juvenum pubescentium ad militiam, Liv. 8, 8: puer vix pubescente juventā, Sil. 16, 678: et nunc aequali tecum pubesceret aevo, Verg. A. 3, 491: pubescere bello, Sil. 4, 429: dehinc pubescens (Tiberius), Suet. Tib. 6: pubescunt dulces malae, Val. Fl. 7, 340: pubescente mala, Sil. 5, 414: et nati modo pubescentia ora, Stat. S. 3, 3, 11: pubescentibus annis, Petr. 119.—
II Transf.
A To be covered or clothed, to clothe itself with any thing (poet.): vites laetificae pampinis pubescere, Enn. ap. Cic. Tusc. 1, 28, 69 (Trag. v. 193 Vahl.); so Plin. 14, 2, 4, § 24: virgulta fetu, Claud. Rapt. Pros. 2, 79: prataque pubescunt variorum flore colorum, Ov. Tr. 3, 12, 7.—
B To grow up, ripen (class.): omnia, quae terra gignit, maturata pubescunt, Cic. N. D. 1, 2, 4; cf. id. ib. 2, 19, 50; Col. 4, 28, 1.—
C Trop., to grow, improve, ripen, flourish, be renewed; of wine, Macr. S. 7, 7.—Of the phœnix renewing its youth, Claud. Phoen. 51.—Of the full beams of the rising sun, Claud. Rapt. Pros. 2, 49.— Of war: subcrescentis rabiem belli, antequam pubescat validus, opprimere, Amm. 21, 13, 14.—Of the spring: pubescente vere, Amm. 27, 5, 2; 30, 5, 1.—Of belief: pubescente jam fide gestorum, Amm. 31, 4, 4.
Latin > French (Gaffiot 2016)
pūbēscō,¹³ bŭī, ĕre (pubes), intr.,
1 se couvrir de poil follet, devenir pubère : Lucr. 5, 672 || entrer dans l’adolescence : Cic. Off. 1, 118 ; Liv. 8, 8
2 pousser, se développer [plantes]: Cic. Nat. 1, 4 ; 2, 50 || [poét.] prata pubescunt flore Ov. Tr. 3, 12, 7, les prés se couvrent de fleurs || leto Claud. Idyll. 1, 52, Phœnix, se rajeunir par la mort [le phénix].
