per-pōto, āvi, 1, v. a. and n.
I To drink or tipple without intermission , to keep up a carouse : postquam ejus hinc pater sit profectus peregre, tum perpotasse adsiduo, Plaut. Most. 4, 2, 60; id. Ps. 2, 6, 13: totos dies, Cic. Verr. 2, 5, 33, § 87; cf. id. ib. 2, 5, 38, § 100: perpotavit ad vesperum, id. Phil. 2, 31, 77: perpotandi dulcedo, Curt. 6, 2, 2. —*
II To drink off : amarum Absinthi laticem, Lucr. 1, 940.