intumesco
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)
in-tŭmesco: mŭi, 3,
I v. n. inch., to swell up; to rise (poet. and in post-Aug. prose).
I Lit.: fluctus flatu intumescens, Plin. 2, 81, 83, § 196; id. 37, 5, 18, § 69: vidi virgineas intumuisse genas, Ov. F. 6, 700.— Of dropsical persons: intumuit suffusā venter ab undā, Ov. F. 1, 215: si partes corporis in vesicas intumuerint, Plin. 20, 6, 23, § 51.—
B Transf., to rise, be elevated, of the surface of the ground: loco tamen ipso paululum intumescente, Col. 1, 4, 10; cf.: nec intumescit alta viperis humus, Hor. Epod. 16, 52.—
II Trop.
A To swell up: vox intumescit, Tac. G. 3: motus, grows, increases, id. A. 1, 38: intumuere statim superbia ferociaque, Tac. H. 4, 19: jure quodam potestatis intumescere, to be puffed up, elated, Quint. 1, 1, 8: rebus secundis, Plin. Ep. 7, 31, 3: supra humanum modum, Sen. Cons. ad Polyb. 36.—
B To become angry: intumuit vati, Ov. P. 4, 14, 34: Juno, quod, etc., id. F. 6, 487; id. M. 8, 582 al.
