subterlabor

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

subter-lābor, lābi, v. dep. n.

I Lit., to glide or flow under (mostly poet.): fluctus Sicanos, Verg. E. 10, 4: flumina subterlabentia muros, flowing close by , id. G. 2, 157: subterlabens Mosella, Aus. Idyll. 10, 21.—

II Transf., to slip away , escape : celeritate subterlabentem, Liv. 30, 25 (dub.).

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