expavesco

ex-păvesco, pāvi, 3, v. inch. n. and a., to be or become greatly terrified, to be very [p. 692] much afraid; to be greatly frightened at or afraid of, to fear greatly (perh. not anteAug.).

(α).

Absol.:

expavescentibus repente,

Plin. 23, 1, 24, § 49.—With ad: ad tumultum aliquem. Plin. 10, 75, 97, § 209; cf.:

cum ad id expavisset,

Liv. 6, 34, 6.— With ab:

anseres a primo conspectu ejus expavescunt,

Plin. 21, 11, 36, § 62; Vulg. Gen. 27, 33 al.—

(β).

With acc.:

tonitrua praeter modum,

Suet. Aug. 90; id. Tib. 69:

muliebriter ensem,

Hor. C. 1, 37, 23:

speciem adulantis,

Tac. H. 2, 76:

insidias,

Suet. Claud. 36:

mortem,

id. Ner. 2:

frigusque famemque,

Juv. 6, 361:

acres moles (Rhodanus),

Sil. 3, 464:

id, ut crimen ingens, expavescendum est,

Quint. 9, 3, 35.