I. Lit., corrupt moisture, matter, corruption, putrid gore, etc. (poet. and in post-Aug. prose): saxa spargens tabo, sanie et sanguine atro, Enn. ap. Cic. Pis. 19, 43; id. Tusc. 1, 44, 107 (Trag. v. 414 Vahl.); Verg. A. 3, 29; 3, 626; 8, 487; Ov. M. 2, 760; 6, 646; 14, 190; Hor. Epod. 5, 65; Tac. H. 2, 70.—Gen. tabi, Luc. 6, 547. — *
B. Poet., like sanies, of the liquor of the purple-fish, Stat. S. 1, 2, 125.—
II. Transf., abstr., an infectious disease, a plague, pest, pestilence (very rare): “turpi dilapsa cadavera tabo,” Verg. G. 3, 557; cf.: “corpora affecta tabo,” Liv. 4, 30, 4: “pallidaque exsangui squalebant corpora tabo,” Ov. M. 15, 627: “infecit pabula tabo,” Verg. G. 3, 481.