v. INTRANS., scandere (to ascend a steep place): sublime ferri; sublimem abire (in the air; the latter only of living creatures): pennis se levare; pennis sublime efferri (of birds). TRANS., scandere aliquid, or in aliquid (e.g., muros; in aggerem): conscendere (with an accusative; e.g., equum, navem): ascendere aliquid, or in aliquid (e.g., murum, navem, or in navem): escendere in aliquid (e.g., in rostra, in concionem, in malum): inscendere in aliquid (e.g., in arborem, in currum) [SYN. in CLIMB]: to mount a horse, conscendere equum; ascendere in equum: to cause the cavalry to mount, equiti admovere equos: not to suffer one to mount (of a horse), non patientem esse sessoris (Suet., Caes., 61); sessorem repudiare (Sen., Const., 12, 3); insurgere in omnes, et conscendere conatus ferocia exterrere (Curt., 1, 4, 13): to mount the rostra, escendere in rostra or in concionem; ascendere in rostra: to mount the throne, *in regiam sedem escendere (PROP.); regnum adipisci; regnum occupare (figuratively, the latter especially contrary to right).