dilabuntur
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);
pl. pres. ind. 3rd
Examples
Libri XIV-XV
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from EPISTULAE MORALES AD LUCILIUM
"...sententiae: 'nam concordia parvae res crescunt, discordia maximae dilabuntur'. Hac se aiebat et fratrem et amicum optimum factum..."Liber VII
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from QUAESTIONES NATURALES
"...quidem sed non quibus siderum nomen imponas, quia dilabuntur nec diu durant et exigui temporis mora dissipantur..."BELLUM IUGURTHINUM
Gaius Sallustius Crispus (Sallust)
"...corporis et alia omnia huiusce modi brevi dilabuntur; at ingeni egregia facinora sicuti anima immortalia sunt. Postremo corporis..."BELLUM CATILINAE
Gaius Sallustius Crispus (Sallust)
"...bellum spes rapinarum aut novarum rerum studium illexerat, dilabuntur; reliquos Catilina per montis asperos magnis itineribus in agrum..."