verb
obrepto
Meaning
- to steal on unawares, to come on imperceptibly
obrepto, āvi, 1,
I. v. freq. n. [id.], to steal on unawares, to come on imperceptibly (very rare):
ne quis obreptaverit, Plaut. Pers. 1, 2, 27: obreptantibus Satyris, Plin. 35, 10, 36, § 109 (but in Cic. Att. 6, 5, 3, the correct read. is obrepebat).