pubesco

pūbesco, bŭi, 3, v. inch. n. [id.], to reach the age of puberty, become pubescent.

I.

Lit. (class.;

syn. adulesco): molli pubescere veste,

to put on the down of puberty, Lucr. 5, 672:

flore novo,

Sil. 3, 79:

Herculem, cum primum pubesceret, etc.,

Cic. Off. 1, 32, 118:

flos juvenum pubescentium ad militiam,

Liv. 8, 8:

puer vix pubescente juventā,

Sil. 16, 678:

et nunc aequali tecum pubesceret aevo,

Verg. A. 3, 491:

pubescere bello,

Sil. 4, 429:

dehinc pubescens (Tiberius),

Suet. Tib. 6:

pubescunt dulces malae,

Val. Fl. 7, 340:

pubescente mala,

Sil. 5, 414:

et nati modo pubescentia ora,

Stat. S. 3, 3, 11:

pubescentibus annis,

Petr. 119.—

II.

Transf.

A.

To be covered or clothed, to clothe itself with any thing ( poet. ): vites laetificae pampinis pubescere, Enn. ap. Cic. Tusc. 1, 28, 69 (Trag. v. 193 Vahl.); so Plin. 14, 2, 4, § 24:

virgulta fetu,

Claud. Rapt. Pros. 2, 79:

prataque pubescunt variorum flore colorum,

Ov. Tr. 3, 12, 7.—

B.

To grow up, ripen (class.):

omnia, quae terra gignit, maturata pubescunt,

Cic. N. D. 1, 2, 4; cf. id. ib. 2, 19, 50; Col. 4, 28, 1.—

C.

Trop., to grow, improve, ripen, flourish, be renewed; of wine, Macr. S. 7, 7.—Of the phœnix renewing its youth, Claud. Phoen. 51.—Of the full beams of the rising sun, Claud. Rapt. Pros. 2, 49.—

Of war: subcrescentis rabiem belli, antequam pubescat validus, opprimere,

Amm. 21, 13, 14.—Of the spring:

pubescente vere,

Amm. 27, 5, 2; 30, 5, 1.—Of belief:

pubescente jam fide gestorum,

Amm. 31, 4, 4.