concupisco

con-cŭpisco, cŭpīvi or cŭpii, ītum, 3, v. inch. a. [cupio], to long much for a thing, to be very desirous of, to covet, to aspire to, strive after (class. in prose and poetry).

(α).

With acc.: quid concupiscas tu videris: quod concupiveris certe habebis, Ant. ap. Cic. Phil. 5, 12, 33:

credo enim vos... non pecuniam... non opes violentas... sed caritatem civium et gloriam concupivisse,

Cic. Phil. 1, 12, 29:

signa, tabulas, etc.,

id. Par. 6, 3, 49:

domum aut villam,

Sall. C. 51, 33:

tribunos plebis,

Liv. 3, 67, 7:

eandem mortem gloriosam,

Cic. Div. 1, 24, 51; Quint. 5, 13, 6:

loquendi facundiam,

id. 12, 10, 16:

eloquentiam,

Tac. Agr. 21:

dominationem,

Suet. Caes. 30:

triumphum,

id. Vesp. 12:

majora,

Nep. Paus. 1, 3:

nihil desiderabile,

Cic. Fin. 1, 16, 53: nihil mihi, Planc. ap. Cic. Fam. 10, 9, 3:

perniciosum quicquam,

id. ib. 10, 8, 2; Cic. Quint. 21, 69; * Hor. Epod. 3, 19; Quint. 1, 2, 6; 12, 11, 23:

cum est concupita pecunia,

Cic. Tusc. 4, 11, 24; 4, 6, 12:

concupiscendus honos,

id. Fam. 15, 6, 2:

aliquid alicui concupiscendum relinquere,

Liv. 1, 56, 7; Curt. 7, 8, 13; Plin. 11, 6, 5, § 15:

aliquid intemperanter,

Nep. Att. 13, 4.—

(β).

With inf.:

quid erat, quod concupisceret deus mundum signis et luminibus tamquam aedilis ornare?

Cic. N. D. 1, 9, 22:

obmutescere,

id. Fin. 4, 3, 7:

ducere Sassiam in matrimonium,

id. Clu. 9, 26; Nep. Lys. 2, 2; Petr. 111:

Nero virtutem ipsam exscindere concupivit,

Tac. A. 16, 21:

esse similes,

Quint. 2, 9, 2:

videri Atticorum imitatores,

id. 12, 10, 14:

prodire in scaenam,

Suet. Ner. 20; id. Claud. 34; id. Calig. 37.—

(γ).

With acc. and inf.:

discerpi senatorem,

Suet. Calig. 28.—

(δ).

Absol. (rare):

fingebat et metum, quo magis concupisceret,

Tac. H. 1, 21; 1, 52:

abiit jam tempus, quo posses videri concupisse,

id. ib. 2, 76:

his domos villas patefecimus non concupiscentibus,

id. G. 41:

quamvis ista non adpetat, tam grate tamen excipit quam si concupiscat,

Plin. Ep. 3, 2, 6.—

II.

Transf., of things (very rare): (faba) aquas in flore maxime concupiscit;

cum vero defloruit, exiguas desiderat,

Plin. 18, 12, 30, § 120.