I.inf. pres. pass. exsurgier, Plaut. Ps. prol. fin.), to rise up, rise, to get up, stand up (class.).
I. Lit.: “a genibus,” Plaut. Rud. 1, 5, 22: “ex insidiis,” Liv. 27, 41, 7: “in plantas,” Sen. Ep. 111, 3: “de nocte multa,” Plaut. Rud. 4, 2, 10: “ubi erit accubitum semel, Ne quoquam exsurgatis, donec, etc.,” id. Bacch. 4, 4, 105: “foras,” id. Mil. 2, 1, 3: “cum exsurgeret, simul arridens, etc.,” Cic. de Or. 1, 62, 265: “tu autem, nisi molestum est, paulisper exsurge,” id. Clu. 60, 168; cf.: “exsurge quaeso,” id. Planc. 42, 102: “acies ita instructa, ut pars in colles exsurgeret,” Tac. H. 2, 14: “altior (to strike the more forcibly),” Verg. A. 11, 697 et saep.—
B. Transf., of things as subjects: “ubi Taurus ab Indico mari exsurgit,” Plin. 5, 27, 27, § 97; cf. Sil. 7, 275: “inde alii ramuli exsurgunt,” Plin. 24, 19, 113, § 173: “cum jam vertigine tectum ambulat, et geminis exsurgat mensa lucernis, i. e. in the dizzy brain,” Juv. 6, 305.—
II. Trop., to rise up, rise, recover strength: “ne quando recreata exsurgere atque erigere se possent, funditus sustulerunt,” Cic. Agr. 2, 32, 87: “(causa) numquam exsurgeret,” id. Phil. 13, 18, 38: “auctoritate vestra res publica exsurget,” id. Fam. 12, 10 fin.: “grandis oratio naturali pulchritudine exsurgit,” Petr. 2, 6; “dolor,” Sen. Med. 49.
