Accubo, áccubas, penult. corr. accubûi, accubitum, penult. cor. accubâre, Quasi ad (id est iuxta) cubare. Virg.To lie by: to sitte or lie downe to eate.Theatrum Terpeo monti accubans. Suet. Being situate by: adioyning. Accubare, ad epulas translatum, idÊ quod accumbere.Cic.Accubare alicui in conuiuìo.Cic.To sitte by one.Accubare apud aliquem.Cic.To be at the table in a mans house: to sitte at meale with him. Accubare. Seneca. To lie a long.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
ac-cŭbo (adc.), āre, 1, v. n., t. t. (the forms accubui and accubitum belong to accumbo), to lie near or by a thing. I. In gen., constr. with dat. or absol.: quoi bini castodes semper accubant, Plaut. Mil. 2, 2, 57: Furiarum maxima juxta accubat, Verg. A. 6, 606: accubantes effodiunt, Plin. 35, 6, 19, 37.—Rarely with acc.: lectum, App. M. 5, p. 160.—Of things: nigrum nemus, Verg. G. 3, 334: cadus (vini), Hor. C. 4, 12, 18.—Also of places (for adjacere): theatrum Tarpeio monti accubans, Suet. Caes. 44.—Esp. II.To recline at table (in the Rom. manner): accubantes in conviviis, Cic. Cat. 2, 5, 10; so, in convivio, Nep. Pel. 3, 2; Cic. Tusc. 3, 23: morem apud majores hunc epularum fuisse, ut deinceps, qui accubarent, canerent ad tibiam, etc., Cic. Tusc. 4, 2, 3; cf.: regulus accubans epulari coepit, Liv. 41, 2, 12; so,