dē-lābor — Lewis & Short
dē-lābor, lapsus, 3,
I v. dep. n., to fall, sink, slip down (freq. and class.).
I Lit.:
signum, de caelo delapsum,Cic. Phil. 11, 10, 24:
de manibus audacissimorum civium delapsa arma,id. Off. 1, 22, 77; Caes. B. C. 2, 11:
sinus ab humero,Quint. 11, 3, 144:
ex utraque parte (aqua),Cic. de Or. 3, 46, 180:
ex equo,Liv. 37, 34 fin.: ab aethere, to glide down, poet. for to fly down, sc. to the earth, Ov. M. 1, 608; cf.:
aetheriis ab astris,Verg. A. 5, 838:
caelo,id. ib. 5, 722:
summo Olympo,Ov. M. 1, 212:
per auras,id. ib. 3, 101; also absol.:
aquila leniter delapsa,Suet. Aug. 94:
curru delapsus eodem,Verg. A. 10, 596; cf. Ov. M. 15, 685:
serta capiti delapsa,Verg. E. 6, 16:
in terram delabi,Lucr. 6, 838:
in scrobes,Caes. B. G. 7, 82:
de caelo in provinciam,Cic. Q. Fr. 1, 1, 2:
in mare (flumen),Hor. Od. 3, 29, 35:
sensit medios delapsus in hostes,Verg. A. 2, 377:
te aequoream Lemnon,Val. Fl. 2, 127:
voce delapsa a magnifica gloria,Vulg. 2 Petr. 1, 17.—
II Trop. (esp. freq. in Cic.), to come down, sink, descend; and with reference to the term. ad quem, to slide or fall into:
jam a sapientium familiaritatibus ad vulgares amicitias oratio nostra delabitur,Cic. Lael. 21; cf. id. Cael. 7, 15; id. Q. Fr. 1, 1, 6, § 18; and:
aut a minoribus ad majora ascendimus, aut a majoribus ad minora delabimur,id. Part. 4, 12:
in idem genus morbi delapsa,Cic. Att. 7, 5; cf.:
in hoc vitium scurrile,id. de Or. 2, 60, 246:
in amorem libertae,Tac. A. 13, 12:
in ambitionem,id. ib. 3, 63 et saep.:
cujus in similitudinem proclivi cursu delabitur,Cic. Rep. 1, 28:
in istum sermonem,id. de Or. 1, 21, 96:
in eas difficultates, ut, etc.,id. Fat. 17; cf.:
eo, ut, etc.,id. Ac. 2, 18, 59 al.:
ad aequitatem et ad rerum naturam,id. Fam. 6, 10, 5:
ad impatientiam,Tac. A. 15, 63:
ad inopiam,id. ib. 2, 38 fin.—Of sounds, to descend, be derived:
atque etiam illa sunt ab his delapsa plura genera (vocum),Cic. de Or. 3, 57, 216.—In epistolary style: eo magis delabor ad Clodiam, I incline to Clodia (i. e. to purchase her gardens), Cic. Att. 12, 47, 1.