Prolabor, pen. pro. beris, pen. co. lapsus sum, lábi. Cic.To slide or slip forth: to fall.Prolapsus cecidit.Liu.Prolabi ex arbore. Plin. Prolabi in caput.Liu.Prolabi ex equo. Li. To fal from horsebacke, or off from his horse.Prolabi timore.Cic.To fall down for feare.Prolabi longius.Cic.To fal out in talke of a matter further than was conueuient.Prolabiin misericordiam.Liu.To become mercifull.Prolabi cupiditate.Cic.Through couetousnesse to erre or do amisse,
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
prō-lābor, lapsus, 3, v. n., to glide forward, to slide or slip along, to fall down (class.; in Cic. most freq. in a trop. sense). I.Lit.: at Canis ad caudam serpens prolabitur Argo, Cic. poët. N. D. 2, 44, 114; Prop. 1, 20, 47: ruit prolapsa moles, of the sea, Att. ap. Cic. N. D. 2, 35, 89: collapsus pons, usque alterius initium pontis prolabi eum leniter cogebat: alii elephanti pedibus insistentes, alii clunibus subsidentes prolabebantur,
to slide along ... slide forward
, Liv. 44, 5 sqq.: velut si prolapsus cecidisset, terram osculo contigit. id. 1, 56: equus prolapsum per caput regem effudit,
, Verg. A. 2, 555: Laodicea tremore terrae prolapsa, Tac. A. 14, 27.—II.Trop.A.To go forward, go on, to proceed or come to, fall into any thing: me longius prolapsum esse, quam ratio vestri judicii postularit, have gone farther, i. e. have said more, Cic. Caecin. 35, 101: libenter ad istam orationem tecum prolaberer,
would go on
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be led on
, id. Leg. 1, 20, 52: in misericordiam prolapsus est animus, Liv. 30, 12: in rabiem, Tac. A. 1, 31: ad seditiones, id. ib. 4, 18: ad jurgia, id. ib. 2, 10: ad superbiam, id. ib. 11, 17fin.; Amm. 23, 6, 1.—B.To slip out, escape: ne quod ab aliquā cupiditate prolapsum verbum videatur, Cic. Font. 13, 28 (9, 18).—C.To fall, fail, err: timore, Cic. Quint. 24, 77: cupiditate, id. Att. 1, 17, 19: cupiditate regni, Liv. 40, 23: nimio juvandi mortales studio, Plin. 28, 8, 29, 118.—D.To fall to decay, to sink, decline, go to ruin: huc unius mulieris libido est prolapsa, ut, etc., Cic. Cael. 20, 47; cf.: eo prolapsi sunt mores, ut, etc., Sen. Contr. 15: ita prolapsa est (juventus), ut coërcenda sit, Cic. Div. 2, 2, 4: ad id prolapsae, Tac. A. 12, 53: in aliquod dedecus, Val. Max. 2, 1, 5: prolapsum clade Romanum imperium, Liv. 23, 5, 14: rem temeritate ejus prolapsam restituit, id. 6, 22; 45, 19: studio magnificentiae, Tac. A. 3, 55.—E.To fall away from grace (eccl. Lat.), Vulg. Heb. 6, 6.