subter-lābor
Meaning
- to glide
subter-lābor, lābi,
I. v. dep. n.
I. Lit., to glide or flow under (mostly poet.):
fluctus Sicanos, Verg. E. 10, 4: flumina subterlabentia muros, flowing close by, id. G. 2, 157: subterlabens Mosella, Aus. Idyll. 10, 21.—II. Transf., to slip away, escape:
celeritate subterlabentem, Liv. 30, 25 (dub.).