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occallesco (obc- ), lui, 3,
I.v. inch. n. [ob-calleo], to get a thick skin; to grow or become callous.
I. Lit.: “latera occallescunt plagis,” Plaut. As. 2, 4, 13; Cels. 4, 24. —Poet., of one metamorphosed into a swine: “os sensi occallescere rostro,” Ov. M. 14, 282.—
II. Trop., to become callous, hardened, insensible: “jam prorsus occallui,” Cic. Att. 2, 18, 4: “longā patientiā occallui,” Plin. Ep. 2, 15, 2: “sic mores occalluere,” Col. 8, 16, 6.
A Latin Dictionary. Founded on Andrews' edition of Freund's Latin dictionary. revised, enlarged, and in great part rewritten by. Charlton T. Lewis, Ph.D. and. Charles Short, LL.D. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1879.

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  • Cross-references in general dictionaries from this page (6):
    • Cicero, Letters to Atticus, 2.18.4
    • Ovid, Metamorphoses, 14.282
    • Plautus, Asinaria, 2.4
    • Pliny the Younger, Epistulae, 2.15.2
    • A. Cornelius Celsus, De Medicina, 4.24
    • Columella, Res Rustica, 8.16.6
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