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pallesco , pallăi, 3,
I.v. inch. n. [palleo], to grow or turn pale.
I. Lit.: ut qui timent sanguine ex ore decedente pallescant, Gell. 19, 4, 4: “pallescere curis,Prop. 1, 13, 7: “nullā pallescere culpā,Hor. Ep. 1, 1, 61: “pallescet super his,will turn pale with emotion, id. A. P. 429: “umbraticā vitā pallescere,Quint. 1, 2, 18; 12, 10, 76.—
II. Transf., to turn pale, sallow: “pallescunt frondes,wither, fade, Ov. A. A. 3, 704: “viso pallescit flamma veneno,Val. Fl. 7, 586; Plin. 9, 17, 30, § 66.
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  • Cross-references in general dictionaries from this page (6):
    • Horace, Ars Poetica, 429
    • Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia, 9.66
    • C. Valerius Flaccus, Argonautica, 7.586
    • Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria, Book 1, 2.18
    • Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria, Book 12, 10.76
    • Gellius, Noctes Atticae, 19.4.4
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