Lewis & Short

ē-scendo (exs-), di, sum, 3, v. n. and a. [scando].

  1. I. Neutr., to climb up, mount up, ascend from a place (cf. ascendo init.; also: scando, peto, incedo, ingredior; rare but class.).
    1. A. In gen.
      1. 1. Lit.: ex alto puteo ad summum, Plaut. Mil. 4, 4, 14: in currum, id. Merc. 5, 2, 90: in caelum, id. Trin. 4, 2, 100; Cic. Tusc. 1, 29, 71: in rotam, id. ib. 5, 9, 24 Klotz N. cr.: in rostra, id. Off. 3, 20, 80; cf.: in contionem, id. Q. Fr. 1, 2, 5; Liv. 8, 33: in malum (navis), id. 30, 25 fin.: in equum, id. 23, 14, 2; 30, 18, 5: in navem, Nep. Them. 8, 6 Nipperd. (for the more usual conscendo).
      2. 2. Trop.: ut ad nos contemptus Samnitium pervenit, supra non escendit, Liv. 7, 30.
    2. B. In partic., = ἀναβαίνειν, to go up from the sea-coast: Pergamum, Liv. 35, 13, 6: legati Delphos cum escendissent, etc., id. 29, 11, 5.
  2. II. Act., to mount, ascend a thing: pars equos escendere, Sall. J. 97, 5: vehiculum, Sen. Vit. Beat. 23: suggestum, Tac. A. 13, 5; cf. rostra, id. ib. 15, 59.