obrepat
Dictionary entries
- Entry →obrepo, obrepere, obrepsi, obreptus:
Verb · 3rd conjugation
- Frequency:
- Frequent
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
creep up on/approach unawares/unobserved; sneak/drop in; pay surprise visit on;
sg. pres. act. subj. 3rd
Examples
Pseudolus
Titus Maccius Plautus
"...evenit in labore atque in dolore, ut mors obrepat interim. sed iam satis est philosophatum. nimis..."Liber X
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from EPISTULAE MORALES AD LUCILIUM
"...mors non est indifferens.' Haec interrogatio vides ubi obrepat: mors non est gloriosa, sed fortiter mori gloriosum..."ad Marciam
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from DE CONSOLATIONE
"...fata: nobis sensum nostrae necis auferunt, quoque facilius obrepat, mors sub ipso uitae nomine latet: infantiam..."