dilapsas
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);
acc. pl. perf. part.
Examples
Liber V
Titus Lucretius Carus (Lucretius) from DE RERVM NATVRA LIBRI SEX
"...adversus naturae foedera niti? denique non monimenta virum dilapsa videmus, [quaerere proporro, sibi cumque senescere credas,] non ruere..."Liber I
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from QUAESTIONES NATURALES
"...quibus dixi, coronae cum dilapsae sunt aequaliter et in semet ipsae euanuerunt, significatur quies aeris et otium..."
Liber Septimus
Gaius Valerius Flaccus from ARGONAVTICA
"...profugam volucri Thaumantias ala sustulit, inde Venus dextrae dilapsa tenenti. obvius ut sera cum se sub nocte magistris..."Liber Tertius
Gaius Valerius Flaccus from ARGONAVTICA
"...annos? iamque solutus honos cineri, iam passibus aegris dilapsae cum prole nurus tandemque quiescunt dissona pervigili planctu vada..."Liber III
P. Vergilius Maro (Vergil) from The Georgics
"...stragem atque aggerat ipsis in stabulis turpi dilapsa cadauera tabo, donec humo tegere ac foueis abscondere discunt..."Metamorphoses XIV
Publius Ovidius Naso (Ovid) from Metamorphoses
"...contrahitur rictus, redeunt umerique manusque, ungulaque in quinos dilapsa absumitur ungues: de bove nil superest formae nisi candor..."Metamorphoses IX
Publius Ovidius Naso (Ovid) from Metamorphoses
"...illa mali, resolutaque flammis Herculeos abiit late dilapsa per artus. dum potuit, solita gemitum virtute repressit. victa malis..."Liber III
Marcus Annaeus Lucanus (Lucan) from DE BELLO CIVILI SIVE PHARSALIA
"...ciuile meum.' sic fata refugitumbra per amplexus trepidi dilapsa mariti. ille, dei quamuis cladem manesque minentur,maior..."