αἴθ' ἔγω, χρυσοστέφαν' Ἀφρόδιτα, τόνδε τὸν πάλον λαχοίην (Sappho, fr. 33 L-P) → Oh gold-crowned Aphrodite, if only this winning lot could fall to me
per-grandesco: ĕre,I v. inch. n., to grow very large (ante-class.), Att. ap. Non. 115, 9.