I.melting or wasting away, dissolving, decaying, consuming, putrefying, pining away, languishing (perh. not ante-Aug.).
I. Lit.: “nix,” Liv. 21, 36: “corruptum et tabidum corpus,” Suet. Tib. 51: “ferae,” id. Calig. 26: “juvenci,” Sen. Oedip. 147: “jecur,” id. ib. 358: “mens,” Ov. P. 1, 1, 67: “tabidus erro,” i. e. pining for love, Calp. Ecl. 3, 50.—
II. Transf., act., wasting, consuming, corrupting, infectious: “venenum,” Tac. A. 12, 66: “vetustas,” Ov. P. 4, 8, 49: “pestis,” Mart. 1, 79, 1: “lues,” Verg. A. 3, 137: “Hecate,” Luc. 6, 737: “victus,” i. e. starvation, Sen. Herc. Fur. 691. — Comp., sup., and adv. seem not to occur.