viresco
From LSJ
Sophocles, Fragment 698
Latin > English (Lewis & Short)
vĭresco: ĕre,
I v. inch. n. [1. vireo, to grow or become green or verdant.
I Lit.: rami arboribus, Lucr. 1, 252: gramina, Verg. G. 1, 55; Ov. M. 4, 394; Plin. 15, 24, 29, § 101; Sen. Thyest. 54; Ambros. in Luc. 7, 127.—
II Trop., to shoot forth, be developed, Claud. Cons. Prob. et Olybr. 63 (but in Lucr. 1, 674 the correct read. is vigescat; cf. id. 1, 757).—
B To flourish, prosper, grow: populi Romani adulescentia, quā maxime viruit, Flor. 1, 22, 1: virescit vulnere virtus, Furius ap. Gell. 18, 11, 4, and ap. Non. p. 188, 8.
