II. To drink in (poet. and in post-Aug. prose).
A. Lit., Cato, R. R. 130: “lana quosdam (colores) non perbibit,” Sen. Ep. 71, 31: “lacrimas,” Ov. M. 6, 397: “medicamina,” Col. 7, 4, 8.—
B. Trop., to imbibe, receive: “haec cum persuasi mihi et perbibi,” Sen. Ep. 94, 11: “liberalia studia,” id. ib. 36, 4: “nequitiam, id. Ira, 1, 16, 2: mentes eorum penitus sucum stultitiae perbiberunt,” Lact. 2, 2, 16: “rabiem,” Ov. Ib. 233: “Latinum sermonem,” Quint. 1, 1, 12 Spald. N. cr.