patesco

pătesco ( -isco ), pătŭi, 3, v. inch. n. [pateo], to be laid open, to be opened, to open (mostly poet. and in post-Aug. prose; not in Cic.).

I.

Lit.:

atria longa patescunt,

Verg. A. 2, 483:

portus patescit,

id. ib. 3, 530:

patescens fungus,

Plin. 22, 22, 46, § 95. —

B.

Transf., to stretch out, extend:

paulo latior patescit campus,

Liv. 22, 4:

neque poterat patescere acies,

Tac. H. 4, 78:

civitates, in quas Germania patescit,

id. G. 30; id. A. 2, 61 fin.; cf.:

latius patescente imperio,

Liv. 32, 27.—

II.

Trop., to be disclosed, to become visible, evident, manifest:

ratio patescit,

Lucr. 5, 614:

nunc primum certā notitiā patescente,

Plin. 6, 23, 26, § 101:

tum vero manifesta fides Danaumque patescunt Insidiae,

Verg. A. 2, 309 (but the true reading, Cic. Phil. 14, 6, 15 B. and K., is quae res patefecit).