Lewis Short
(verb) : ē-pōto (ex-poto, Plaut. Trin. 2, 4, 5
* V.infra), āvi, pōtum (in late Lat. potatum, v. fin.), 1, , to drink out, off, or up, to drain, quaff, swallow (in the verb. finit. rare, and only post-Aug.; in the part. perf. class.): epotum venenum,Cic. Clu. 62, 173: medicamentum,Liv. 8, 18: potionem,Quint. 7, 2, 17; 25; Ov. M. 5, 453 al.: epoto poculo,Cic. Clu. 60, 168: poculum,Liv. 40, 24: amphoram,Suet. Tib. 42; Phaedr. 3, 1, 1; Vulg. Ezech. 23, 34: remedia,Amm. 16, 5, 8: argentum expotum,wasted in drinking,Plaut. Trin. 2, 4, 5.— Poet., to suck up, swallow up, etc.: omnibus epotis umoribus,Lucr. 5, 384: ter licet epotum ter vomat illa fretum (Charybdis),Ov. P. 4, 10, 28: epoto Sarmata pastus equo (i. e. sanguine equino),Mart. Spect. 3: ubi terreno Lycus est epotus hiatu,Ov. M. 15, 273: Tyron (i. e. purpuram Tyriam) epotavere lacernae,Mart. 2, 29, 3: naumachias videbar epotaturus,Sid. Ep. 1, 5.
Charlton T. Lewis, Charles Short, A Latin Dictionary