To creepe: to runne as roores do in the ground. Repere gembus. Pli. To creepe on his knees. Vulpecula per rimam repserat in cameram. Hor. Quid non adultds concuyiscet, qui in purpuris, repit? Quin. What wil not he desire comming to age, % in his infancie is pampered up in purple. Per iter longum repsere, Luca. Milia tum pransi tria repsimus. Hor. After we had dined we went seftly three myles. Repere, etiam radices dicuntur. Colum. To runne in the ground. Repit in altitudinem vinea. Colu. The vine groweth up in height.

I. Lit.

1. Of animals: repens animans, Lucr. 3, 388: cochleae inter saxa, Sall. J. 93, 2: millipeda, Plin. 29, 6, 39, 136: formica, id. 37, 11, 72, 187: muraenae, id. 9, 20, 37, 73: volpecula, Hor. Ep. 1, 7, 29 dub.: elephas genibus in catervas, Plin. 8, 7, 7, 20 et saep.—

2. Of creeping children, Quint. 1, 2, 6; Stat. Th. 9, 427.—

3. Of other persons in gen.: quā unus homo inermis vix poterat repere, Nep. Hann. 3 fin.: super altitudinem fastigii (templi), Plin. 22, 17, 20, 44: Pyrrho regi, quo die periit, praecisa hostiarum capita repsisse, id. 11, 37, 77, 197.—

B. Transf., to creep, crawl, of persons travelling slowly: milia tum pransi tria repimus, Hor. S. 1, 5, 25.—Of persons swimming: qui flumen repunt, Arn. 1, 20.— Of cranes slowly stalking, Enn. ap. Serv. Verg. G. 3, 76 (Ann. v. 545 Vahl.).—Of boats moving slowly along: aequore in alto ratibus repentibus, Poet. (Enn.?) ap. Varr. L. L. 7, 23 Müll. (cf. Enn. p. 87 Vahl.; Trag. Rel. p. 292 Rib.).—Of water flowing slowly: aqua palustris, quae pigro lapsu repit, Col. 1, 5, 3.— Of clouds, Lucr. 6, 1121.— Of fire: ignis per artus, Lucr. 6, 661.—Of plants, Col. Arb. 4 fin.; 16, 4: genus cucurbitarum, quod humi repit, Plin. 19, 5, 24, 70; 22, 22, 39, 82.—Of movable towers, Luc. 3, 458.—Of the stealthy advance of a snare, Stat. S. 1, 2, 60.—

II. Trop.: sermones Repentes per humum, i. e. low, common, mean, Hor. Ep. 2, 1, 251.