elanguesco

ē-languesco, gui, 3, v. inch. n., to grow faint, feeble, to slacken, relax (not ante-Aug.):

ut elanguescendum aliena ignavia esset,

Liv. 1, 46, 7; so in the praes., id. 35, 45; Vell. 2, 111 fin.; Plin. 9, 30, 48, § 91; Sil. 4, 140 al.—In the perf.:

elanguimus, patres conscripti, nec jam ille senatus sumus qui, etc.,

Tac. H. 4, 42 fin.; Suet. Galb. 1:

differendo deinde elanguit res,

Liv. 5, 26, 3; cf.:

neque tamen elanguit cura hominum eā morā,

id. 23, 23, 8; so Gell. 16, 3, 2; Val. Fl. 4, 572.