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Theme for this month: Inchoative verbs

apiscor, apisci, aptus sum

Definition: to grasp; to find (a person); (of infection) to seize on, attack; to get, obtain, secure, reach

Sententia: Si morbus Iuliam ferocius apiscitur etiamsi iit ad fundum, edat mala, cum malum per diem medicum arceat.

If disease attacks Julia more fiercely, although she has gone to a farm, let her eat apples, since an apple a day keeps the doctor away.

I must admit again, "apiscor" is found even less than "convalesco" in Latin literature, not found in Vergil at all. It is, however, a model inchoative, formed from "apio," "to fasten, attach," + "sco," inchoative-ness.