candesco
From LSJ
τὸ πολὺ τοῦ βίου ἐν δικαστηρίοις φεύγων τε καὶ διώκων κατατρίβομαι → waste the greater part of one's life in courts either as plaintiff or defendant
Latin > English (Lewis & Short)
candesco: ui, 3,
I v. inch. n. candeo, to become of a bright, glittering white, to begin to glisten or radiate (rare; mostly poet.): ut solet aër candescere solis ab ortu, Ov. M. 6, 49; Tib. 1, 10, 43.—
II To begin to glow, to grow red hot: ferrum candescit in igni, Lucr. 1, 491; Ov. M. 2, 230; Vitr. 7, 9 fin; cf. candeo fin.
