To slide downe: to fall from an high: to be wasted, consumed, or come to naught. To decay: to faile: to erre: to doe amisse: to fall, slide, or passe to an other matter. Ascendere & Delabi, pugnantia. Ci. Delapsus ab alto tecto. Ouid. Fallen from. Signum cœlo delapsum. Cic. Cœlo repentè delapsus. Li. Delabi de cœlo & è cœlo. Cic. Delapsa de manibus audacissimorum hominum arma ceciderunt. Cicer. Their weapons slid and fell out of their handes. In flumen delapsus. Cic. Pondere delabi in terram. Luc. Delabi res familiaris dicitur. Cic. Substance falleth in decay and is consumed. Delabitur in eas difficultates. Cicero. Hee falleth into those streights or perplexities. Delabi in fraudem. Cic. To fall into inconuenience. In insidias. Plin. iun. To fall into ambushement: to fall into a trappe or snare, set to deceiue one. In idem genus moibi. Cic. In turpitudinem. Cic. In vitium. Cic. To fall into a fanlt: to offende in. Quum id assequi non potuissent, istuc potissimum sunt delapsi, vt aiunt in Græcis artificibus, eos, &c. Cice. They came especially to this point, as, &c. Delabitur interdum, vt dicat, &c. Ci. Sometime he commeth to the point, that he saith, &c. Delabitur oratio ad vulgares amicitias. Cic. We do beginne to speake of the friendship that, &c. Ad præcipiÊdi rationem delapsa oratio. Ci. My talke is now fallen to the maner of instruction or precepts giuing. Delabi in aliquem sermonem. Cic. Eodem delabi. Ouid. To come to the same purpose. Magis delabor ad Clodium. Cic. I more incline to. Ad æquitatem delabi. Cic. To incline to equitie. Delapsa fluxerunt. Cic.

I. Lit.: signum, de caelo delapsum, Cic. Phil. 11, 10, 24: de manibus audacissimorum civium delapsa arma, id. Off. 1, 22, 77; Caes. B. C. 2, 11: sinus ab humero, Quint. 11, 3, 144: ex utraque parte (aqua), Cic. de Or. 3, 46, 180: ex equo, Liv. 37, 34 fin.: ab aethere, to glide down, poet. for to fly down, sc. to the earth, Ov. M. 1, 608; cf.: aetheriis ab astris, Verg. A. 5, 838: caelo, id. ib. 5, 722: summo Olympo, Ov. M. 1, 212: per auras, id. ib. 3, 101; also absol.: aquila leniter delapsa, Suet. Aug. 94: curru delapsus eodem, Verg. A. 10, 596; cf. Ov. M. 15, 685: serta capiti delapsa, Verg. E. 6, 16: in terram delabi, Lucr. 6, 838: in scrobes, Caes. B. G. 7, 82: de caelo in provinciam, Cic. Q. Fr. 1, 1, 2: in mare (flumen), Hor. Od. 3, 29, 35: sensit medios delapsus in hostes, Verg. A. 2, 377: te aequoream Lemnon, Val. Fl. 2, 127: voce delapsa a magnifica gloria, Vulg. 2 Petr. 1, 17.—

II. Trop. (esp. freq. in Cic.), to come down, sink, descend; and with reference to the term. ad quem, to slide or fall into: jam a sapientium familiaritatibus ad vulgares amicitias oratio nostra delabitur, Cic. Lael. 21; cf. id. Cael. 7, 15; id. Q. Fr. 1, 1, 6, 18; and: aut a minoribus ad majora ascendimus, aut a majoribus ad minora delabimur, id. Part. 4, 12: in idem genus morbi delapsa, Cic. Att. 7, 5; cf.: in hoc vitium scurrile, id. de Or. 2, 60, 246: in amorem libertae, Tac. A. 13, 12: in ambitionem, id. ib. 3, 63 et saep.: cujus in similitudinem proclivi cursu delabitur, Cic. Rep. 1, 28: in istum sermonem, id. de Or. 1, 21, 96: in eas difficultates, ut, etc., id. Fat. 17; cf.: eo, ut, etc., id. Ac. 2, 18, 59 al.: ad aequitatem et ad rerum naturam, id. Fam. 6, 10, 5: ad impatientiam, Tac. A. 15, 63: ad inopiam, id. ib. 2, 38 fin.—Of sounds, to descend, be derived: atque etiam illa sunt ab his delapsa plura genera (vocum), Cic. de Or. 3, 57, 216.—In epistolary style: eo magis delabor ad Clodiam, I incline to Clodia (i. e. to purchase her gardens), Cic. Att. 12, 47, 1.