collabefacto

A New Latin Dictionary by Charlton T. Lewis Ph.D. and Charles Short, LL. D.

col-lăbĕfacto (conl-), āre, v. a.,

to make to reel , shake , or totter (perh. only in the two foll. exs.): motu collabefactat onus, Ov. F. 1, 566.—Poet. of liquefying metals: rigorem auri, to overpower , subdue , Lucr. 1, 493; cf. collabefio.

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