lapso, āre
* V. freq. n. [id.], to slip, slide, stumble, fall.
* Lit. (poet. and in postAug. prose): (Priamum) in multo lapsantem sanguine nati,Verg. A. 2, 551: sanguine suo et lubrico paludum lapsantes (equi),Tac. A. 1, 65: lapsantibus equis,id. H. 1, 79: lapsantem gressum firmare,Sil. 3, 632; Flor. 2, 10, 3: Gyan vidi lapsare cruentae Vulnere Myrmidonis,fall,Stat. Th. 5, 223: plantis lapsantibus,Amm. 14, 2, 6.
* Trop. (post-class.): verba lapsantia,i. e. babbled forth,Gell. 1, 15, 1.

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