(verb) : cŭbo, ŭi, ìtúm, 1 (
* Perf. subj. cubaris, Prop. 2 (3), 15, 17; perf. inf. cubasse, Quint. 8, 2, 20; cf. also Neue, Formenl. II. p. 478), cf. κύπτω, to lie down.
* Of persons.
* In gen., to be in a recumbent posture, to recline: in lecticā cubans. Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 23, § 51: ut etiam legationes audiret cubans,Suet. Vesp. 24; id. Aug. 33; 43: cubans auspicatur qui in lecto quaerit augurium, Paul. ex Fest. p. 66, 5 Müll.: pisces cubantes = jacentes,flat,Col. 8, 17, 9.—Far more freq. and class.
* Of inanim. objects.
* To lie asleep, to sleep: (vilicus) primus cubitu surgat: postremus cubitum eat ... uti suo quisque loco cubet,Cato, R. R. 5, 5; cf.: cubitum ire,Cic. Rosc. Am. 23, 64; id. Div. 2, 59, 122: cubitum abire,Plaut. Most. 2, 2, 55: cubitum discedere,Cic. Rep. 6, 10, 10: cubitum se eo conferre,Suet. Aug. 6: cum iste cubaret, in cubiculum introductus est,Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 23, § 56: humi ac sub divo,Suet. Caes. 72: toro,id. Aug. 73; Ov. M. 11, 612 et saep.
* Of sexual intercourse, to lie: cum aliquā (aliquo),Plaut. Am. prol. 112; 1, 1, 134; id. Mil. 1, 1, 65 al.; Ter. Ad. 5, 3, 65; Cat. 69, 8; 78, 4 al.—Absol., Plaut. Cist. 1, 1, 46; id. Am. prol. 132; 1, 1, 131 et saep.
* To recline at table (cf. accumbo): quo eorum loco quisque cubuisset,Cic. de Or. 2, 86, 353: supra,Suet. Calig. 24: juxta,id. ib. 32; id. Tit. 1: ille cubans gaudet, etc.,Hor. S. 2, 6, 110.
* To lie sick, to be sick: est ei quidam servus qui in morbo cubat,Plaut. Cas. prol. 37: puerperio,id. Truc. 2, 5, 22: ex duritie alvi,Suet. Ner. 34: aeger,id. Aug. 72.—Absol., Lucr. 2, 36: haec cubat, ille valet,Ov. H. 20, 164: trans Tiberim longe cubat,Hor. S. 1, 9, 18; 2, 3, 289; id. Ep. 2, 2, 68.
* In gen.: quā cubat unda freti,lies, extends itself,Mart. 5, 1, 4.
* In partic., of places, to be in a sloping direction, to slope: cubantia tecta,inclining, sloping,Lucr. 4, 518: Ustica cubans,Hor. C. 1, 17, 12.— Hence, Ital. covare; Fr. couver.

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