ob-rēpo, psi, ptum, 3
* V. n., to creep up to any thing, approach stealthily (class.).
* Lit.: et possim mediā quamvis obrepere nocte,Tib. 1, 9 (8), 59; Flor. 4, 10, 2: qui Gallos in obsidione Capitolii obrepentes per ardua depulerat,Gell. 17, 21, 24.—With dat.: feles quam levibus vestigiis obrepunt avibus!Plin. 10, 73, 94, § 202.
* Transf.
* In gen., to steal upon, come suddenly upon one; to take by surprise, to surprise.
* With dat.: qui enim citius adulescentiae senectus, quam pueritiae adulescentia obrepit?Cic. Sen. 2, 4: mihi decessionis dies λεληθότως obrepebat, id. Att. 6, 5, 3; cf. in the foll. under ε: cui obrepsit oblivio,Sen. Ben. 3, 2, 1: vitia nobis sub virtutum nomine obrepunt,id. Ep. 45, 7.
* In partic., to surprise, deceive, cheat: numquam tu, credo, me imprudentem obrepseris,Plaut. Trin. 1, 2, 23; 4, 2, 132; Flor. 4, 10; Gell. 6, 12, 4.—Impers. pass.: si obreptum praetori sit de libertate,Dig. 40, 5, 26, § 8; 26, 7, 55, § 4.
* With ad: Plancium non obrepsisse ad honorem,to creep up to, to come at by stealth,Cic. Planc. 7, 17: obrepsisti ad honores errore hominum,id. Pis. 1, 1.
* With in and acc.: imagines obrepunt in animos dormientium extrinse cus, Cic. Div. 2, 67, 139; Ambros. Off. Mi. nist. 3, 6, 41.—(ε) Absol.: obrepsit dies,Cic. Att. 6, 3, 1: obrepit non intellecta senectus,Juv. 9, 129.

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