adrepite
Dictionary entries
- Entry →adrepo, adrepere, adrepsi, adreptus:
Verb · 3rd conjugation · Intransitive
- Frequency:
- Common
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
creep/move stealthily towards, steal up; feel one's way, worm one's way (trust);
pl. pres. act. imp. 2nd
Examples
Liber III
Publius Cornelius Tacitus from ANNALES
"...ipse flagitiorum proditor non virorum animis sed muliercularum adrepit. cedat tamen urbe et bonis amissis aqua et igni..."Liber I
Publius Cornelius Tacitus from ANNALES
"...egens, ignotus, inquies, dum occultis libellis saevitiae principis adrepit, mox clarissimo cuique periculum facessit, potentiam apud unum, odium..."