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ascensus (ads- ), ūs, m. ascendo,
I.an ascending, ascent.
I. A.. Lit.: “primos prohibere ascensu coeperunt,Caes. B. G. 5, 32: “homines audaces ab ejus templi aditu atque ascensu repulisti,Cic. Dom. 21: “quod hosti aditum ascensum ve difficilem praeberet,Liv. 25, 36 summi fastigia tecti Ascensu supero, Verg. A. 2, 303 ascensus muri, Vulg. 2 Esdr. 12, 36. ascensus altaris, ib. Eccli. 50, 12. adscensus siderum, a rising of the stars to our hemisphere, Plin. 29, 4, 15, § 59: “ascensus aurorae,Vulg. 2 Esdr. 4, 21; ib. Jon. 4, 7.—Also in plur: hostes partim scalis ascensus tentant, Liv 36, 24.—
II. Meton. (abstr. for concr., cf.. aditus, accessus, etc.), a place by which one ascends, an approach, ascent: “inambulans atque ascensu ingrediens arduo,Cic. de Or 1, 61, 261 difficilis atque arduus, id. Verr 2, 4, 23: “riget arduus alto Tmolus in ascensu,Ov. M. 11, 151: “quae aedes tribunal habent et ascensum,a flight of stairs, ascent, Vitr. 4, 7, p. 93 Rode; so id. 5, 6, p. 111 Rode.—In plur ut obtinerent ascensus montium, Vulg. Judith, 2, 6; ib. 1 Reg. 14, 4.—Trop.. in virtute multi ascensus many degrees, Cic. Planc. 25 Wund.
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