to fall, sink, slip down, glide down, descend: in mare (flumen), H.: medios delapsus in
hostīs, V.: gradibus, by the steps,
O.: signum de caelo delapsum: de manibus civium delapsa arma: ex
equo, L.: ab astris, V.: per
auras, O.: caelo, V.: Olympo, O.: capiti (i. e. de capite), V.:
flumen in mare, H. — Fig., to come down,
sink, descend, fall, slide, stoop, condescend: a sapientium
familiaritatibus ad volgarīs amicitias oratio delabitur: eo, ut
diceret, etc.: ad aequitatem, incline: in idem genus morbi:
in hoc vitium: eo magis delabor ad Clodiam, I incline to Clodia.
—Of sounds, to descend, be derived: ab his delapsa plura
genera (vocum).
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