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.).