ē-bĭbo — Lewis & Short
ē-bĭbo, bi, bĭtum, 3, v. a.,
I to drink up, drain (not in Cic. or Caes.).
I Lit.:
quid comedent? quid ebibent?Ter. Heaut. 2, 3, 14;
so with comedere,Plaut. Trin. 2, 1, 20; id. Ps. 5, 2, 11;
hirneam vini,id. Am. 1, 1, 276:
poculum,id. Curc. 2, 3, 80:
ubera lactantia,Ov. M. 6, 342 et saep.:
elephantos dracones,i. e. to suck their blood, Plin. 8, 12, 12, § 34; cf.
sanguinem,Plaut. Curc. 1, 2, 65:
cum vino simitu imperium,to drink up, forget through drinking, Plaut. Am. 2, 1, 84 (cf. in the simplex:
bibere mandata,id. Pers. 2, 1, 3, v. bibo).—Poet.: invenies illic, qui Nestoris ebibat annos, to drink the age of Nestor (i. e. to drink as many glasses as equal the years of Nestor), Ov. F. 3, 533. —
B Transf., of inanimate things, to suck in, draw in, absorb:
(fretum) peregrinos amnes,Ov. M. 8, 837; cf. Plin. 5, 15, 15, § 71:
saniem (lana),id. 9, 38, 62.—
II In gen., to waste in drink, squander, Hor. S. 2, 3, 122. —
III Trop., to exhaust, remove, take away:
spiritum meum,Vulg. Job, 6, 4.