Obrepo, obrêois, pen. prod. obrepsi, obreptum obrépere. Plau. To conte priuily: to steale in: to come vnwares or vnlookes for: to creepe on one ere he be ware: to deceine one.Inscientibus nobis obrepit aliquid.Cic. Obrepere dicitur quicquid sensum fallit.Plaut.So to come that it is not perceiued or felt.Statim re obrepet fames Plaut.Vt mors obrepat interim.Plaut.That death may steale on vs in the meane time.Obrepit somus. Plin. iun.Sleepe commeth or stealeth on vs.Adolescentiæ senectus obrepit. Cicero. Olde age after youth immediatly stealeth on vs.Mihi decessionis dies obrepebat.Cic.That day that I must needes depart one came vpon me sooner than I thought.Statim obrepserit dies.Cic.The day will be come by and by before you thinke.Obrepit obliuio.Senec.Nul imagines obrepunt in animos dormientium extrinsecus. Cic. Obrepere. Plin. To decelue: to come vppon vnwares. Nec potest Scaurus videri improuidæ ciuitati obrepsisse, &c. Plin. Neither can Staurus seeme priuily to haue deceiued the citie and brought this mischiefe without knowledge or warning.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
ob-rēpo, psi, ptum, 3, v. n., to creep up to any thing, approach stealthily (class.). I.Lit.: et possim mediā quamvis obrepere nocte, Tib. 1, 9 (8), 59; Flor. 4, 10, 2: qui Gallos in obsidione Capitolii obrepentes per ardua depulerat, Gell. 17, 21, 24.—With dat.: feles quam levibus vestigiis obrepunt avibus!Plin. 10, 73, 94, 202.—II.Transf.A. In gen., to steal upon, come suddenly upon one; to take by surprise, to surprise. (a). With dat.: qui enim citius adulescentiae senectus, quam pueritiae adulescentia obrepit?Cic. Sen. 2, 4: mihi decessionis dies lelhqo/tws obrepebat, id. Att. 6, 5, 3; cf. in the foll. under e: cui obrepsit oblivio, Sen. Ben. 3, 2, 1: vitia nobis sub virtutum nomine obrepunt, id. Ep. 45, 7.—(b). With acc. (ante-class., and in Sall.): tacitum te obrepet fames, Plaut. Poen. prol. 14: si tanta torpedo animos obrepsit, Sall. H. 1, 49, 19.—(g). With ad: Plancium non obrepsisse ad honorem,
to creep up to, to come at by stealth
, Cic. Planc. 7, 17: obrepsisti ad honores errore hominum, id. Pis. 1, 1. —(d). With in and acc.: imagines obrepunt in animos dormientium extrinse cus, Cic. Div. 2, 67, 139; Ambros. Off. Mi. nist. 3, 6, 41.—(e) Absol.: obrepsit dies, Cic. Att. 6, 3, 1: obrepit non intellecta senectus, Juv. 9, 129.—B. In partic., to surprise, deceive, cheat: numquam tu, credo, me imprudentem obrepseris, Plaut. Trin. 1, 2, 23; 4, 2, 132; Flor. 4, 10; Gell. 6, 12, 4.—Impers. pass.: si obreptum praetori sit de libertate, Dig. 40, 5, 26, 8; 26, 7, 55, 4.