The corpus record — Latin

perbibo

perbibo · v. a

To drink

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Where it lives

Ibis 1 · 2.54/10k
Stichus 1 · 1.61/10k
Hercules Oetaeus 1 · 0.89/10k
De agri cultura 1 · 0.64/10k
De Ira 1 · 0.45/10k
Ad Lucilium Epistulae Morales 3 · 0.25/10k
Metamorphoses 1 · 0.13/10k
Institutio Oratoria 1 · 0.06/10k

What it meant

per-bĭbo — Lewis & Short

per-bĭbo, bĭbi, 3, v. a. (to drink much; hence), *

I To drink or suck up: at ego perii, cui medullam lassitudo perbibit, Plaut. Stich. 2, 2, 16.—

II To drink in (poet. and in post-Aug. prose).

A Lit., Cato, R. R. 130: lana quosdam (colores) non perbibit, Sen. Ep. 71, 31: lacrimas, Ov. M. 6, 397: medicamina, Col. 7, 4, 8.—

B Trop., to imbibe, receive: haec cum persuasi mihi et perbibi, Sen. Ep. 94, 11: liberalia studia, id. ib. 36, 4: nequitiam, id. Ira, 1, 16, 2: mentes eorum penitus sucum stultitiae perbiberunt, Lact. 2, 2, 16: rabiem, Ov. Ib. 233: Latinum sermonem, Quint. 1, 1, 12 Spald. N. cr.

In the wild

perbibit Seneca, Ad Lucilium Epistulae Morales 8.71.31
perbibere Seneca, Ad Lucilium Epistulae Morales 4.36.3
perbibi Seneca, Ad Lucilium Epistulae Morales 15.94.11
perbibant Cato, De agri cultura 130
Perbibit Ovid, Ibis 231
perbibisti Seneca, De Ira 1.16.3

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Where it came from

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