conscendo

con-scendo, ndi, nsum, 3, v. a. and n. [p. 426] [scando].

I.

In gen., to mount, to ascend (in prose rare before the Aug. per.)

A.

Lit.

(α).

With acc.:

currum,

Lucr. 6, 47; Prop. 2 (3), 18, 13; Ov. Tr. 3, 8, 1; Curt. 5, 10, 12: montes, * Cat. 64, 126; Prop. 1, 6, 3:

vallum,

Caes. B. G. 5, 39 fin.:

equos,

Ov. M. 14, 820; Liv. 29, 2, 16; Suet. Calig. 51:

aethera,

Ov. M. 3, 299; Stat. S. 3, 1, 7; Val. Fl. 2, 444:

culmen summum,

Sil. 3, 510:

scopulum,

Verg. A. 1, 180:

rogum,

id. ib. 4, 646:

tribunal,

Suet. Tib. 17; id. Galb. 10 al.—

(β).

With in:

in equi costas,

Lucr. 5, 1296:

in equos,

Ov. M. 6, 222:

in montem,

Petr. 116, 1.—

B.

Trop. (very rare):

laudis carmen,

Prop. 2 (3), 10, 23:

ad ultimum nefas,

Quint. Decl. 377.—

II.

Esp., a nautical t. t., to go on board a ship, to embark, take ship, etc. (class. in all periods and species of composition; cf. ascendo); constr. with the acc., in, or absol.

(α).

With acc.: cymbam piscatoriam. Afran. ap. Non. p. 535, 30:

navem,

Caes. B. G. 4, 23; id. B. C. 2, 4; Cic. Fam. 3, 10, 3; Nep. Dat. 4, 3:

naves,

Liv. 22, 19, 8; 37, 11, 8; cf. in pass.:

conscensā nave,

Just. 31, 4, 3; and:

navibus conscensis,

id. 12, 10, 1:

navigium,

Suet. Caes. 58:

cavatum ex materiā alveum,

Vell. 2, 107, 1:

puppim,

Ov. F. 2, 95:

classem,

Verg. A. 10, 155; Ov. M. 13, 422; cf.:

aequor navibus,

to navigate, Verg. A. 1, 381: ibi classem, Auct. B. Afr. 10, 2.—

(β).

With in:

in navem,

Cic. Fam. 14, 17, 2:

in phaselum,

id. Att. 14, 16, 1.—

(γ).

Absol.:

velim quam primum conscendas ad meque venias,

Cic. Q. Fr. 2, 2, 4 al.:

conscende nobiscum, et quidem ad puppim,

id. Fam. 12, 25, 5; Liv. 22, 19, 10; 37, 11, 10; * Quint. 4, 2, 41; Ov. Tr. 1, 2, 41:

in Siciliam,

to embark for Sicily, Liv. 31, 29, 6.—With ab and abl. of place:

Pompeium a Brundisio conscendisse,

Cic. Att. 9, 14, 3:

ab eo loco conscendi,

id. Phil. 1, 3, 7:

ab hortis Cluvianis,

id. Att. 14, 16, 1; cf.

Epheso,

id. ib. 6, 8, 4:

Thessalonicae conscendere jussi,

Liv. 44, 23, 9.