languish Copy link Outline 1. langueo, ui, 2; incept. languesco, 3 (to be or become faint, feeble, or remiss)2. marceo, 2 (lit. to wither, droop3. tābesco, 3 • languish: 1. langueo, ui, 2; incept. languesco, 3 (to be or become faint, feeble, or remiss): to l. in body (= become unwell), corpore languescere, Cic. Fin. 4, 24, 65: love l.s (without a rival), languet amor, Ov. A. A. 2, 436; all emotion l.s, omnis affectus languescit, Quint. 11, 3, 2. (N.B.--Not to be used of wasting sickness cf. infr.) 2. marceo, 2 (lit. to wither, droop: not in Cic.): to l. with luxury, m. luxuriâ, Liv. 23, 45: Cels. Incept. languesco, Liv. Plin. 3. tābesco, 3: v. to pine, waste. See also to droop, fail. Phr.: the war l.'d for want of supplies, *propter commeatus inopiam strenue geri bellum non poterat; magis trahebatur bellum quam gerebatur (v. to drag on, intr.): war-like preparations l., belli apparatus refrigescunt, Cic. Ph. 5, 11, 30: commerce l.s amidst civil strife, *inter seditiones affliguntur commercia (cf. Cic. Agr. 2, 30, 83, cetera vectigalia belli difficultatibus affliguntur): but the verb denotes actual prostration: perh. refrigescunt may be so used: cf. supr.