obrepere
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. pass. imp. 2ndsg. fut. pass. ind. 2ndsg. pres. pass. ind. 2ndpres. act. infin.
Examples
Liber IV
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from EPISTULAE MORALES AD LUCILIUM
"...pervigilet et ne pilo quidem incumbat, quia solet obrepere interim somnus in aliquod adminiculum reclinatis. Mors nullum habet..."Ars Poetica
Quintus Horatius Flaccus (Horace)
"...bonus dormitat Homerus; uerum operi longo fas est obrepere somnum. Vt pictura poesis; erit quae, si propius stes..."Liber IX
Gaius Plinius Caecilius Secundus (Pliny the Younger) from EPISTVLARVM LIBRI DECEM
"...decerpere uvam, torculum invisere, gustare de lacu mustum, obrepere urbanis, qui nunc rusticis praesunt meque notariis et lectoribus..."