desudo

dē-sūdo, āvi, ātum, 1, v. n. and a. (mostly post-Aug.).

I.

Neutr., to sweat greatly.

A.

Lit., Cels. 6, 6, 29; Stat. Th. 3, 277.—

B.

Trop., to exert or fatigue one's self: in his (sc. exercitationibus ingenii) desudans atque elaborans, *Cic. de Sen. 11, 38:

alio Marte,

Claud. B. Get. 280; cf. id. in Eutrop. 2, 602:

laboribus,

Vulg. Eccl. 2, 19.—

II.

Act., to sweat out, exude.

A.

Lit.:

balsama, Claud. Epithal. Pall. et Celer. 123: pestem in amnes,

id. in Rufin. 1, 304.—

B.

Trop., to perform with exertion (qs. with sweating):

excubias militiae,

Sid. Ep. 6, 1.