Elabor, pen. prod. eláberis, elaplus sum, elábi. To slippe or slide away: to escape: to fall out.Elabi & abire.Cic.To slippe and depart away.Paulatim elabi, Vide Paulatim in PAVLVM.Excidere casu aliquo & elabi.Cic.To fall and slippe out by chaunce.Elapsus sum Bacchidi. Tere. I scaped from Barchis.Cum vinclis clapsus.Stat.Pugoam aut vincula elapsi. Tac. Hauing scaped from.Custodias Vitellij elapsum.Tacit.Hauing scaped paste Vitellius his watch.Elabi de, vel è, siue ex manibus.Cic.To escape out of.Elapsus ex prælio. Cæsa. Scaping out of battaile.Elabi ex ferro alicuius, ac manibus.Cic.Elabi inter tela & gladios alicuius.Liu.To escape thoroughe the dartes and swords.Elabi inter tumultum.Liu.While the siurre was to escape.Sinuoso flexn elabi.Virg. E memoria clabi. Author ad Heren. To bee forgotten: to fall out of memorie.Ex confeisione inscitiæ suæ non potuit vrbanius elabi. Qu. Elabi ex criminibus.Cic.To scape out of accusations, or to dispatch himselfe of.Elabi suspicione. Cice. To scape without suspition: or to dispatch himselfe out of all suspition. Elabitur mos de manibus.Cic.The custome falleth cleane out of vse. Assensio illa omnis elabitur. Cice. Al that consenting or agreeing to the thing slippeth out of my minde againe.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
ē-lābor, elapsus (elabsus), 3, v. dep. n. and a.I.Neutr., to slip or glide away, to fall out, get off, escape (class.). A.Lit.: anguilla est, elabitur, Plaut. Ps. 2, 4, 57; so of a snake, Liv. 1, 56; 26, 19; Verg. G. 1, 244; Ov. M. 9, 63: cum se convolvens sol elaberetur et abiret, Cic. Div. 1, 23, 46: (animal) ex utero elapsum, id. N. D. 2, 51, 128; cf. id. Cat. 1, 6 fin.: elapsae manibus tabellae, Ov. M. 9, 571; cf.: gladius ei e manu, Just. 33, 2, 3: jumentum e manibus curantium elapsum, Liv. 44, 40: animi corporibus elapsi, Cic. Rep. 6, 26 fin.; cf. id. Tusc. 1, 45 fin.: quicquid incidit, fastigio musculi elabitur, Caes. B. C. 2, 11, 1: Manlii cuspis super galeam hostis elapsa est,
slipped along
, Liv. 8, 7: foras elapsa corpora, Lucr. 5, 489.—b. In an upward direction of fire: frondes elapsus in altas,
having crept
,
glided
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upwards
, Verg. G. 2, 305. —2. In partic. (a). Of persons, to slip off, get clear, escape: ex proelio elapsi, Caes. B. G. 5, 37 fin.: e soceri manibus ac ferro, Cic. Att. 10, 4, 3: de caede Pyrrhi, Verg. A. 2, 526: telis Achivum, id. ib. 2, 318; cf. custodiae, Tac. A. 5, 10: inter tumultum, Liv. 28, 33: mediis Achivis, Verg. A. 1, 242 et saep.—(b). Of limbs or joints, to be dislocated: articuli, Cels. 8, 11, 13: id quod in latus elapsum est, digitis restitui, id. 8, 19: illi elapsos in pravum artus, etc., Tac. H. 4, 81.—B.Trop.A. In gen., to slip away, escape: causa e manibus, Cic. de Or. 2, 50; cf.: rei publicae statum illum elapsum scito esse de manibus, id. Att. 1, 16, 6; and with this cf. id. Mur. 39, 85: animus devinctus paulatim elapsus est Bacchidi, i. e.
became estranged
, Ter. Hec. 1, 2, 94: libros adolescenti elapsos esse, had slipped from him, i. e. had been published prematurely, Quint. 3, 1, 20: in servitutem elapsi,
who had insensibly fallen into
, Liv. 3, 37.—B. In partic. 1.To get off, get clear, escape from condemnation, punishment: ex tot tantisque criminibus elapsus, Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 58; 2, 1, 39fin.; id. de Sen. 12 fin.; id. Q. Fr. 3, 4, 2; Quint. 2, 11, 2; 3, 6, 83; Suet. Tib. 33 al. Less freq. of things: ne quod maleficium impunitate elaberetur, Suet. Aug. 32.—2. Pregn., to pass away, disappear, escape: imperfecta tibi elapsa est vita, Lucr. 3, 958; so, ea spes, Plaut. Capt. 3, 5, 101: assensio omnis illa, Cic. Tusc. 1, 11, 24: aliquid memoriă, id. Phil. 13, 5, 11; cf. Quint. 10, 3, 33; Luc. 9, 80.—II.Act. like effugere, to escape from any evil or danger (post-Aug. and very rare): pugnam aut vincula, Tac. A. 1, 61: custodias, id. H. 3, 59; Flor. 1, 10, 7 Duker. N. cr.: vim ignium (statua), Tac. A. 4, 64.