Irrepo, irrêpis, pen. prod. irrepsi, irreptum, irrépere. Plini. To creepe or euter in by stealth: to enter in priuily by little and little.Irrepere dicitur res aliqua.When it is priuily done that men perteiueth it not.Irrepit scabies. Columel. The scabbe beginneth by little and little.Irrepit vtilitas. Vlpiaous. Hæc lues primum irrepsit in Italia. Plin. Thia mischief first crept or eutred into Iraly.Irrepere in tabulas publicas.Cic.By srelth to be written or inrolled in the common register.Quum cæreri aliquo modo in tabulas corum municipiorum irrepserunt, &c.Cic.Libenter irrepere in opinionem gratiæ alicuius, Ci.Gladly to worke by priny meanes, that he may be counted onely to be in ones fauour.Irrepit in hominum mentes dissimulatio Cic.Dissimulatiõ entreth by little and little into mens mindesVt possit in locupletum testamenta nomen eius irrepere. C. That he may be written heye in rich mens last willes.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
irrēpo (inr-), repsi, reptum, 3, v. n. [1. in-repo], to creep in, into, upon, or to a place. I.Lit., with ad: draconem repente irrepsisse ad eam, Suet. Aug. 94.— With dat.: (salamandra) si arbori irrepsit, Plin. 29, 4, 23, 74.—Absol.: irrepsi tamen, Petr. 87.—With acc. of place: cubiculum, App. M. 3, p. 139; 8, p. 206: caveam, id. ib. 4, p. 149: hospitium, id. ib. 9, p. 219: Mogontiacum, Amm. 27, 10, 1.—II.Transf., of things: haec lues ... inrepsit in Italiam, Plin. 26, 1, 3, 3; cf. id. 26, 1, 3, 9: inrepsisse medicinam,
to be gradually introduced
, id. 30, 1, 1, 2: irrepentes radiculae, Col. 4, 1, 2: irrepentibus aquis, id. 3, 18, 5 Schneid. — III.Trop., to come or get into in an imperceptible manner, to steal in, insinuate one's self: laetitia in sinum, Pompon. ap. Non. 500, 26 (Com. Rel. v. 141 Rib.): eloquentia irrepit in sensus, Cic. Or. 28, 97: in mentes hominum, id. de Or. 3, 53, 203: in tabulas municipiorum, id. Arch. 5, 10: in testamenta locupletium, id. Off. 3, 19, 75.— (b). With acc.: inrepere paulatim militares animos, Tac. A. 4, 2.—(g). With dat.: dolor animo irrepet, Sen. Cons. ad Polyb. 26: irrepsit subito canities seni, Prud. prooem. 23.—(d).Absol.: lentoque irrepunt agmine poenae, Stat. Th. 5, 60: penitus irrepere per luxum, Tac. A. 13, 12; cf. id. H. 2, 63.