dilapsus
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);
nom. sg. perf. part.
Examples
- P
Aeneid IV
P. Vergilius Maro (Vergil) from The Aeneid
"...dextra crinem secat, omnis et una dilapsus calor atque in ventos vita recessit..." - P
Liber IV
P. Vergilius Maro (Vergil) from The Georgics
"...atque ita vinclis excidet, aut in aquas tenues dilapsus abibit. Sed quanto ille magis formas se vertet..." - G
Epistola ad Caesarem I
Gaius Sallustius Crispus (Sallust) from SPURIA
"...populus, qui dominus erat, et cunctis gentibus imperitabat, dilapsus est: et, pro communi imperio, privatim sibi quisque servitutem..."