The corpus record — Latin

relabor

to slide

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Where it lives

Parentalia 1 · 3.85/10k
Epodon 1 · 3.33/10k
Appendix Vergiliana 1 · 2.88/10k
Agamemnon 1 · 1.8/10k
Liber De Persona et Duabus Naturis Contra Eutychen Et Nestorium 1 · 1.71/10k
De Brevitate Vitae 1 · 1.62/10k
De consolatione philosophiae 3 · 1.22/10k
Epistulae 1 · 1.01/10k
Hercules Oetaeus 1 · 0.89/10k
Octavius 1 · 0.86/10k
Contra Symmachum 1 · 0.83/10k
Epistulae 2 · 0.78/10k

Densest 12 of 23 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

rĕ-lābor — Lewis & Short

rĕ-lābor, lapsus, 3,

I v. dep. n., to slide or glide back; to sink or fall back (mostly poet.).

I Lit.: vix oculos tollens iterumque relabens, etc., sinking back upon the couch, Ov. M. 11, 619: (Orpheus) flexit amans oculos et protinus illa (Eurydice) relapsa est, id. ib. 10, 57: conscendere summas antennas prensoque rudente relabi, to slide down, id. ib. 3, 616: in sinus relabere nostros, return, id. H. 15, 95: retrahitque pedem simul unda relabens, flowing back, retreating, * Verg A. 10, 307; cf.: quis neget arduis Pronos relabi posse rivos Montibus, Hor. C. 1, 29, 11: flecte ratem, Theseu, versoque relabere vento, sail back, Ov. H. 10, 149: (mare) relabens terram naturae suae reddit, Curt. 6, 4, 19: (Tiberim) relabentem secuta est aedificiorum et hominum strages, Tac. A. 1, 76 init.: relabente aestu, id. ib. 2, 24.—

II Trop., to sink or fall back; to relapse; to return: nunc in Aristippi furtim praecepta relabor, Hor. Ep. 1, 1, 18: tunc mens et sonus Relapsus atque notus in vultus honor, id. Epod. 17, 18.

In the wild

relabi Seneca, Ad Lucilium Epistulae Morales 9.75.13
relapsa Appendix Vergiliana, Appendix Vergiliana 149
relabens Minucius Felix, Octavius 3.3
relapsa Boethius, De consolatione philosophiae 3.P3
relabor Horace, Epistulae 1.1.18
relabitur Silius Italicus, Punica 3.55

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