I.a. [scando].
I. Neutr., to climb up, mount up, ascend from a place (cf. ascendo init.; also: scando, peto, incedo, ingredior; rare but class.).
A. In gen.
1. Lit.: “ex alto puteo ad summum,” Plaut. Mil. 4, 4, 14: “in currum,” id. Merc. 5, 2, 90: “in caelum,” id. Trin. 4, 2, 100; Cic. Tusc. 1, 29, 71: “in rotam,” id. ib. 5, 9, 24 Klotz N. cr.: “in rostra,” id. Off. 3, 20, 80; cf.: “in contionem,” id. Q. Fr. 1, 2, 5; Liv. 8, 33: “in malum (navis),” id. 30, 25 fin.: “in equum,” id. 23, 14, 2; 30, 18, 5: “in navem,” Nep. Them. 8, 6 Nipperd. (for the more usual conscendo).—
2. Trop.: “ut ad nos contemptus Samnitium pervenit, supra non escendit,” Liv. 7, 30.—
B. In partic., = ἀναβαίνειν, to go up from the sea-coast: “Pergamum,” Liv. 35, 13, 6: “legati Delphos cum escendissent, etc.,” id. 29, 11, 5.—
II. Act., to mount, ascend a thing: “pars equos escendere,” Sall. J. 97, 5: “vehiculum,” Sen. Vit. Beat. 23: “suggestum,” Tac. A. 13, 5; cf. “rostra,” id. ib. 15, 59.