LAT

Lewis Short

(verb) : tābĕo, ēre, tabes
* To melt, melt down or away, to waste away, consume (poet.).
* Lit.: aliis rebus concrescunt semina membris, Atque aliis extenuantur tabentque vicissim,Lucr. 4, 1262: corpora tabent,Ov. M. 7, 541: tabentes genae,Verg. A. 12, 221: tabens sanies,Stat. Th. 4, 364: sale tabentes artus in litore ponunt,dripping,Verg. A. 1, 173.
* Trop., to waste away, vanish: seditio tabetne an numeros augificat suos? Enn. ap. Non. 76, 2 (Trag. v. 105 Vahl.).
Charlton T. Lewis, Charles Short, A Latin Dictionary
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