prolabebantur
Dictionary entries
- Entry →prolabor, prolabi, prolapsus sum:
Verb · 3rd conjugation · Deponent
- Frequency:
- Lesser
glide or slip forwards, fall into decay, go to ruin; collapse;
pl. imperf. ind. 3rd
Examples
Liber XLIV
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...cogebat. alii elephanti pedibus insistentes, alii clunibus subsidentes prolabebantur. ubi planities altera pontis excepisset eos, rursus simili ruina..."Liber III
Publius Cornelius Tacitus from ANNALES
"...olim familiae nobilium aut claritudine insignes studio magnificentiae prolabebantur. nam etiam tum plebem socios regna colere et coli..."