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per-bĭbo , bĭbi, 3, v. a. (to drink much; hence), *
I. To drink or suck up: “at ego perii, cui medullam lassitudo perbibit,Plaut. Stich. 2, 2, 16.—
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.
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  • Cross-references in general dictionaries from this page (7):
    • Ovid, Metamorphoses, 6.397
    • Plautus, Stichus, 2.2
    • Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria, Book 1, 1.12
    • Seneca, Epistulae, 36.4
    • Seneca, Epistulae, 71.31
    • Seneca, Epistulae, 94.11
    • Columella, Res Rustica, 7.4.8
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