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
Aeneid IV
P. Vergilius Maro (Vergil) from The Aeneid
"...dextra crinem secat, omnis et una dilapsus calor atque in ventos vita recessit..."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..."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..."