(verb) : lăbasco, ĕre
* V. n. inch., and lăba-scor, ci, labo, to totter, be ready to fall (ante-and post-class.).
* Lit.: quod crebro tunditur ictu, vincitur in longo spatio tamen atque labascit,Lucr. 4, 1285; 1, 537.
* Trop., to waver, give way, yield. —Form labascor, Att. ap. Non. 473, 9: postquam vidit misericordia labasci mentem infirmam populi,Varr. ib. 473, 11.—Form labasco: leno labascit,Plaut. Rud. 5, 3, 38: labascit victus uno verbo,Ter. Eun. 1, 2, 98; id. Ad. 2, 2, 31: animum vi quadam nova ictum labascere,Gell. 15, 2, 7.

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