Hebe, hebes, The daughter of Iuno, who was butlar to Iupiter before the tanishing of Ganymedes, and she was called of the paynuns the goddesse of youth. Of hir beginning poets denssed this fable. Apollo on a time bad his stepmother Iuno to a banker, where among other meates she was serued with wilde lettuce: of whiche after the had eaten verie greedilie, (where before the was euer barraine) sodainelye the became fertile, & brought foorth to hir husband a daughter called Hebe, whom Iupiter for hir excellent fauont and beautie, made his cuppe bearer. But on a time when he was at a feaste in Aethiope, and Hebe bringing his cuppe in a slipperie place channced to fall, and disclosed further of hir neather partes, than comelinesse would haue to be shewen. Iupiter, to the great displeasure of his wife Iuno, remooued hir from that office, and appointed Ganymedes to serne him at his cuppe.
Hebeo, hebes, hebére. Liu.To bee dull.Iræ hebent.Stat.Auger is diminished, or is not so quicke.Sanguis gelidus hebet, Virg.He hath no quicknesse or liuelinesse.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
Hēbē, ēs, f. =*(/hbh (youth), the goddess of youth (pure Lat. Juventas), the daughter of Juno, cup-bearer to the gods, and, after the deification of Hercules, his wife, Ov. M. 9, 400; Prop. 1, 13, 23; Cat. 68, 116; Serv. Verg. A. 1, 28; 5, 134 al.
hĕbĕo, ēre, v. n., to be blunt or dull (perh. not ante-Aug.). I.Lit.: ferrum nunc hebet?Liv. 23, 45, 9.—II.Trop., to be dull, sluggish, inactive, not lively: gelidus tardante senecta Sanguis hebet, Verg. A. 5, 396: corpus hebet somno, Val. Fl. 4, 41: stella hebet, id. 5, 371: et jam Plias hebet, Luc. 2, 722: ipsi hebent mira diversitate naturae, cum iidem homines sic ament inertiam et oderint quietem,
lounge about
, Tac. G. 15: quid stolidi ad speciem notae novitatis hebetis?
are amazed
, Aus. Epigr. 69: temporis adversi sic mihi sensus hebet, Ov. Tr. 4, 1, 48: olim annis ille ardor hebet, Val. Fl. 1, 53: hebent irae, Stat. Th. 11, 386.