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tābĕo , ēre, v. n. tabes,
I.to melt, melt down or away, to waste away, consume (poet.).
I. 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.—
II. Trop., to waste away, vanish: seditio tabetne an numeros augificat suos? Enn. ap. Non. 76, 2 (Trag. v. 105 Vahl.).
A Latin Dictionary. Founded on Andrews' edition of Freund's Latin dictionary. revised, enlarged, and in great part rewritten by. Charlton T. Lewis, Ph.D. and. Charles Short, LL.D. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1879.

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    • Ovid, Metamorphoses, 7.541
    • Vergil, Aeneid, 12.221
    • Vergil, Aeneid, 1.173
    • Lucretius, De Rerum Natura, 4.1262
    • Statius, Thebias, 4
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