tabent
Dictionary entries
- Entry →tabeo, tabere, -, -:
Verb · 2nd conjugation
- Frequency:
- Common
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
rot away, decay; waste away;
pl. pres. act. ind. 3rd
Examples
Liber VII
Marcus Annaeus Lucanus (Lucan) from DE BELLO CIVILI SIVE PHARSALIA
"...Caesar, aquas, hoc, si potes, utere caelo.sed tibi tabentes populi Pharsalica ruraeripiunt camposque tenent uictore fugato. non solum..."
Liber Duodecimus
Publius Papinius Statius from THEBAID
"...socias liquisse malorum, 'anne' ait 'hostiles ego te tabente per agros (heu dolor!) expectem quaenam sententia lenti Theseos..."Metamorphoses VII
Publius Ovidius Naso (Ovid) from Metamorphoses
"...dantibus aegros sponte sua lanaeque cadunt et corpora tabent; acer equus quondam magnaeque in pulvere famae degenerat palmas..."