ad-bĭbo, bĭbi, bĭbĭtum, 3, v. a. [ad, intens.], to drink (not in Cic.).
I Lit.: quando adbibero, Plaut. Stich. 2, 2, 58; so Ter. Heaut. 220; Gell. 2, 22.—
II Trop., of discourse, to drink in , Plaut. Mil. Gl. 3, 3, 10 (cf. devorare dicta, id. As. 3, 3, 59, and Ov. Tr. 3, 5, 14; Sid. Carm. 16, 126).—Hence of instruction, to drink in eagerly , to listen to attentively : nunc adbibe puro Pectore verba, puer, Hor. Ep. 1, 2, 67.