verb
sub-lābor
Meaning
- to fall
sub-lābor, lapsus, 3,
I. v. dep. n., to fall, glide, or sink under or down, to sink (poet. and in post-Aug. prose).
I. Lit.:
imperfecta necesse est labent et modo prodeant, modo sublabantur aut succidant, Sen. Ep. 71, § 34: aedificia vetustate sublapsa, Plin. Ep. 10, 75, 1; cf. poet. transf.: annis sublapsa vetustas, Verg. A. 12, 686.—* B. In partic., to slip down, glide away:
lues udo sublapsa veneno Pertentat sensus, Verg. A. 7, 354.—