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delabitur

Dictionary entries

  • delabor, delabi, delapsus sum:

    Verb · 3rd conjugation · Deponent

    Frequency:
    Very Frequent
    Dictionary:
    Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)

    = slip/fall/glide/fly/flow down; fall freely/out of control/prostrate; slip into;; drop, descend; sink; fall/fail/lose strength; flow down; be carried downstream;

    Entry →
    sg. pres. ind. 3rd

Examples

  • M

    Liber IX

    Marcus Annaeus Lucanus (Lucan) from DE BELLO CIVILI SIVE PHARSALIA

    "...meritum Phycunta rapinas sparsit, et hinc placidis alto delabitur auris in litus, Palinure, tuum (neque enim aequore tantum..."
  • M

    Liber II

    Marcus Annaeus Lucanus (Lucan) from DE BELLO CIVILI SIVE PHARSALIA

    "...petens montis decliuia Thybrim unda facit Rutubamque cauum. delabitur inde Vulturnusque celer nocturnaeque editor aurae Sarnus et umbrosae..."
  • M

    Liber XI

    Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (Quintilian) from INSTITUTIONES

    "...initio narrationis, sinus ab umero recte velut sponte delabitur, et cum ad argumenta ac locos ventum est reicere..."
  • M

    Liber VII

    Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (Quintilian) from INSTITUTIONES

    "...saepe, si finitio infirma est, in syllogismum delabitur. II. Sit enim lex: "Venefica capite puniatur. Saepe se verberanti..."
  • P

    Metamorphoses XV

    Publius Ovidius Naso (Ovid) from Metamorphoses

    "...repetita dedit vibrata sibila lingua; tum gradibus nitidis delabitur oraque retro flectit et antiquas abiturus respicit aras adsuetasque..."

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