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
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..."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..."SATIRICON LIBER
Gaius Petronius Arbiter (Petronius)
"...aratro domefacta tellus nitet, dum loqueris, levis pruina dilabitur. Similiter in pectoribus ira considit: feras quidem mentes obsidet..."BELLUM IUGURTHINUM
Gaius Sallustius Crispus (Sallust)
"...passim multis sibi quisque imperium petentibus brevi dilabitur. Ex eo numero Medi, Persae et Armenii navibus in Africam..."