I.to be blunt or dull (perh. not ante-Aug.).
I. Lit.: “ferrum nunc hebet?” Liv. 23, 45, 9.—
II. Trop., to be dull, sluggish, inactive, not lively: “gelidus tardante senecta Sanguis hebet,” Verg. A. 5, 396: “corpus hebet somno,” Val. Fl. 4, 41: “stella hebet,” id. 5, 371: “et jam Plias hebet,” Luc. 2, 722: “ipsi hebent mira diversitate naturae, cum iidem homines sic ament inertiam et oderint quietem,” lounge about, Tac. G. 15: “quid stolidi ad speciem notae novitatis hebetis?” are amazed, Aus. Epigr. 69: “temporis adversi sic mihi sensus hebet,” Ov. Tr. 4, 1, 48: “olim annis ille ardor hebet,” Val. Fl. 1, 53: “hebent irae,” Stat. Th. 11, 386.
