(verb) : hĕbĕo, ēre
* To be blunt or dull (perh. not ante-Aug.).
* Lit.: ferrum nunc hebet?Liv. 23, 45, 9.
* Trop., to be dull, sluggish, inactive, not lively: gelidus tardante senecta Sanguis hebet,Verg. A. 5, 396: corpus hebet somno,Val. Fl. 4, 41: stella hebet,id. 5, 371: et jam Plias hebet,Luc. 2, 722: ipsi hebent mira diversitate naturae, cum iidem homines sic ament inertiam et oderint quietem,lounge about,Tac. G. 15: quid stolidi ad speciem notae novitatis hebetis?are amazed,Aus. Epigr. 69: temporis adversi sic mihi sensus hebet,Ov. Tr. 4, 1, 48: olim annis ille ardor hebet,Val. Fl. 1, 53: hebent irae,Stat. Th. 11, 386.

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