To corrupt: to destroie: to vndo: to subuert: to appaire: to make feeble: to cast downe. Labefactare & Sustentare, siue Restituere, contraria. Cic. Labefactare & peruertere. Cic. Labefactare sigoum. Cic. To wagge the Image and make it ready to fall: to subuert or cast downe. Labefactare atque oppugnare cõmoda alicuius. Cic. To hinder, and ail that he can to be against ones commodities. Labefactare aratores. & penitus euertere. Ci. Greatly to hinder and vtterly to vndoe husband men. Labefactare fidem suam, aut alterius, pretio. Li. With briberie to corrupt. &c. Vide FIDES. Labefactare opinionem. Cic. To confute an opinion, & bring it out of credite. Labefactare & euertere Rempub. Cic. To destroie and subuert the common weale. Labefactare vitas hominum. Cic. Labefactare aliquem. Cic. To deterre or feare one from his purpose: to make him change his minde. Animam labefactare. Lucret. To corrupt. Labefactare aliquem atque infirmare. Cic.

I. Lit.: signum vectibus, Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 43, 49: horrea bellicis machinis, Suet. Ner. 38: aedium fundamenta, Cod. Th. 10, 19, 14: phalangii morsus genua labefactat, Plin. 29, 4, 27, 86.—

B. Transf., in gen., to injure, weaken, ruin, destroy: sensus, Lucr. 1, 694: onus gravidi ventris, to procure an abortion, Ov. Am. 2, 13, 1: colla boum, to hurt, gall, Col. 2, 2, 22.—

II. Trop., to shake, throw down, overthrow, destroy, ruin, weaken (a favorite expression of Cic.): animam, Lucr. 6, 798: aliquem, Cic. Fam. 12, 25, 2; id. Dom. 12, 27; id. Div. in Caecil. 14, 44: alicujus consulatum, id. Mil. 13, 34: alicujus dignitatem, id. Rab. Post. 16, 44: invidiā verbi orationem, id. Fin. 1, 13, 43: Aristoteles primus species labefactavit, quas mirifice Plato erat amplexatus, id. Ac. 1, 9, 33: conjurationem, id. Cat. 4, 10, 22: causam ad judicem, id. Rosc. Com. 4, 13: fidem, Liv. 24, 20: opinionem, Cic. Clu. 2, 6; so, labefactare alone, to shake in purpose, move, cause to yield: me video ab ea astute labefactarier, Ter. Eun. 3, 3, 3: labefacto paulatim (sc. eum), Plaut. Merc. 2, 3, 68: non illam rarae labefactes munere vestis, corrupt, Cat. 69, 3, cf.: castimoniam viduae, Cod. Th. 9, 25, 1: rem publicam, Cic. Fin. 1, 13, 43: maximas res publicas ab adulescentibus labefactatas ... reperietis, id. Sen. 6, 20; cf.: Carthaginem et Corinthum, id. Rep. 2, 4, 7: labefactarat vehementer aratores superior annus, id. Verr. 2, 3, 18, 47: amicitiam aut justitiam labefactare atque pervertere, id. Fin. 3, 21, 70: leges ac jura, id. Caecin. 25, 70: alicujus fidem pretio, id. Clu. 68, 194: provinciarum fidem, Tac. A. 13, 21: (praecepta) labefactari aliqua parte, Quint. 2, 13, 14.