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‘tū sata sīderibus caelī nūtrīta secundīs crēscere, dum fīant falcibus apta, sinās.’
“May you allow the crops – having been nourished by the stars of favorable heaven – to thrive, until they become ready for the sickles.” (A prayer spoken by the Flamen Quirinalis during the Robigalia to propitiate the deity Robigo or Robigus and prevent agricultural diseases.)
“cresco”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
“cresco”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
cresco in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
the moon waxes, wanes: luna crescit; decrescit, senescit
my subject grows as I write: materia mihi crescit
to take courage: animus alicui accedit, crescit
the price of corn is going up: annona ingravescit, crescit
to raise oneself by another's fall: crescere ex aliquo
to profit by the unpopularity of the senate to gain influence oneself: crescere ex invidia senatoria
De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “crēscō, -ere”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 144