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The corpus record — Latin

obrepo

obrepo

approach stealthily

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Where it lives

  • Valeriani Duo 1 · 9.82/10k
  • De Paenitentia 2 · 4.91/10k
  • De Senectute 3 · 3.63/10k
  • De Arte Poetica liber 1 · 3.24/10k
  • Epigrammata Ausonii de diversis rebus 1 · 2.74/10k
  • Troades 1 · 1.47/10k
  • De Consolatione ad Marciam 1 · 1.19/10k
  • Trinummus 1 · 1.02/10k
  • In L. Calpurnium Pisonem 1 · 0.92/10k
  • Poenulus 1 · 0.91/10k
  • Pseudolus 1 · 0.9/10k
  • Pro Cn. Plancio 1 · 0.86/10k

Densest 12 of 30 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

ob-rēpo — Lewis & Short

ob-rēpo, psi, ptum, 3,

I v. n., to creep up to any thing, approach stealthily (class.).
I Lit.: et possim mediā quamvis obrepere nocte, Tib. 1, 9 (8), 59; Flor. 4, 10, 2: qui Gallos in obsidione Capitolii obrepentes per ardua depulerat, Gell. 17, 21, 24.—With dat.: feles quam levibus vestigiis obrepunt avibus! Plin. 10, 73, 94, § 202.—
II Transf.
A In gen., to steal upon, come suddenly upon one; to take by surprise, to surprise.
(a) With dat.: qui enim citius adulescentiae senectus, quam pueritiae adulescentia obrepit? Cic. Sen. 2, 4: mihi decessionis dies lelhqo/tws obrepebat, id. Att. 6, 5, 3; cf. in the foll. under e: cui obrepsit oblivio, Sen. Ben. 3, 2, 1: vitia nobis sub virtutum nomine obrepunt, id. Ep. 45, 7.—
(b) With acc. (ante-class., and in Sall.): tacitum te obrepet fames, Plaut. Poen. prol. 14: si tanta torpedo animos obrepsit, Sall. H. 1, 49, 19.—
(g) With ad: Plancium non obrepsisse ad honorem, to creep up to, to come at by stealth, Cic. Planc. 7, 17: obrepsisti ad honores errore hominum, id. Pis. 1, 1. —
(d) With in and acc.: imagines obrepunt in animos dormientium extrinse cus, Cic. Div. 2, 67, 139; Ambros. Off. Mi. nist. 3, 6, 41.—(e) Absol.: obrepsit dies, Cic. Att. 6, 3, 1: obrepit non intellecta senectus, Juv. 9, 129.—
B In partic., to surprise, deceive, cheat: numquam tu, credo, me imprudentem obrepseris, Plaut. Trin. 1, 2, 23; 4, 2, 132; Flor. 4, 10; Gell. 6, 12, 4.—Impers. pass.: si obreptum praetori sit de libertate, Dig. 40, 5, 26, § 8; 26, 7, 55, § 4.

In the wild

6 of 45 attestations shown.

Where it came from

No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission.

Latin text and lemmatization derived from the Perseus Digital Library (canonical-latinLit), CC BY-SA 4.0. Lewis & Short (public domain) via Perseus. This derived data is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 license.