succresco

suc-cresco ( subc- ), ĕre, v. inch. n., to grow under or from under any thing; to grow up (very rare).

I.

Lit.:

sub ordine naturali pilorum (in palpebris) alius ordo succrescit,

Cels. 7, 7, 8:

succrescit ab imo,

Ov. M. 9, 352:

ne patiantur herbam succrescere,

Col. 4, 14, 2; cf.:

mores mali, Quasi herba irrigua, succrevere uberrime,

Plaut. Trin. 1, 1, 9.—

B.

Transf., to grow up to any thing: toties haustum cratera repleri Sponte suā, per seque vident succrescere vina, to spring up, or be supplied anew, Ov. M. 8, 680.—

II.

Trop.: non enim ille mediocris orator vestrae quasi succrescit aetati, grows up after, succeeds, * Cic. de Or. 3, 61, 230:

se gloriae seniorum succrevisse,

Liv. 10, 13, 17.