dilabitur
Dictionary entries
- Entry →dilabor, dilabi, dilapsus sum:
Verb · 3rd conjugation · Deponent
- Frequency:
- Frequent
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
run/flow/slip away, spread (liquids); dissolve/melt away, disperse (clouds);; fall apart/to pieces; disintegrate; break down (body), collapse/decay/perish;; flee/escape; scatter, fall into confusion; be lost; go to ruin; pass (time);
sg. pres. ind. 3rd
Examples
- L
de Clementia
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from DIALOGI
"...vacat exactor alienorum operum, et amisso rege totum dilabitur, nec umquam plus unum patiuntur melioremque pugna quaerunt; praeterea..." - L
APOCOLOCYNTOSIS
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger)
"...decepere fidem: refugit digitosque per ipsos fallax adsiduo dilabitur alea furto. Sic cum iam summi tanguntur culmina montis..." - G
SATIRICON LIBER
Gaius Petronius Arbiter (Petronius)
"...aratro domefacta tellus nitet, dum loqueris, levis pruina dilabitur. Similiter in pectoribus ira considit: feras quidem mentes obsidet..." - G
BELLUM IUGURTHINUM
Gaius Sallustius Crispus (Sallust)
"...passim multis sibi quisque imperium petentibus brevi dilabitur. Ex eo numero Medi, Persae et Armenii navibus in Africam..."