Repto, reptas, reptare, Frequentatiuum. To creepe much: to go softly like a inaile. vt Pecudes reptans in colli tondentes pabula, Lucr.Sheepe go on the hil softle grasing.Per vada reprabat pronus, Clau. Reptare.Stat.To go sustlie drawing the legs as litle chilvren do.Solo nostro reptasti, Stat. Reptare per translationem. Hor. To proceede and goe forward softlie.Sine cruribus & pennis reptant locuslæ. Plin.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
repto, āvi, ātum, 1, v. freq. n. and a. [id.], to creep, crawl (mostly poet. and postAug.; a favorite word with Claud.). I.Neutr.A.Lit., of animals and men, Plin. 9, 30, 50, 95: chamaeleon humi reptans, Gell. 10, 12, 2: anguis reptans, Claud. III. Cons. Stil. 172; id. III. Cons. Hon. 22; id. Rufin. 1, 93; id. Eutr. 2, 443 al.—B.Transf., of persons walking slowly or lazily: major pars populi aridi reptant fame, Plaut. Fragm. ap. Gell. 3, 3, 5.— Of beasts: pecudes, Lucr. 2, 318: an tacitum silvas inter reptare salubris, Hor. Ep. 1, 4, 4: per limitem, Plin. Ep. 1, 24, 4; 9, 26, 2.— Of plants, Plin. 19, 5, 24, 69.— II.Act., to creep or crawl through. So only in part. perf.: rep-tātus, a, um, crept or crawled through: ager (ab angue), Stat. Th. 5, 581: Creta tenero Tonanti, Claud. IV. Cons. Hon. 134; cf.: amnis tenero Achilli, id. Rufin. 2, 180: Delos geminis numinibus, Pac. Pan. Theod. 4 fin.