Tabeo, tabes, tabêre, siue Tabesco, tabescis, tábui, tabéscere. Gel. Plaut.To languish, pine, or consume: to be extremelye leane: to weare away: to melt away.Artus tabentes.Virg.Pying limmes.Ceræ tabuerant.Ouid.The waxe began to melt away.Corpora tabent.Ouid.Dies tabescit.Plaut.The day weareth awaye, or draweth to an end.Galea tabescens. Claud. Humor calore tabescit.Cic.The Ice melteth away with the funnes heate.Sal tabescit. Cato. Salt melteth.Animus tabescit assiduis curis.Ouid.Pineth.Disyderio alicuius tabescere. Cice. To pine or languishe for lacke of ones companie.Ipsi ita acerba, vt tabescat dolore. Ci. Dolore ac miseria tabescere. Teren. Lumina tabescunt fleru. Catul. Myne eyes drie away, &c.Luctu æterno tabescere. Lucret. Molestus & morbo tabescere.Cic.Otio tabescere. Ci. To corrupt with idlenesse: to consume or weare away with idlenesse.Tabificabilis.That may corrupt and fal into a consumption.Tabum: idem quod tabes.
Tabes, tabis, f. g. Cel. A consuming and wasting of the bodse by long sicknesse and lack of nourishing. A consumption and putrifying of the lightes, moste commonlye sollowing on a sharpe distillation dropping from the heade. A pyning and drying awaye for lacke of natural moysture, Water and corrupt bloud mirt togither. Sometime strength to putrifle and consume.Quos durus amor crudeli tabe peredit. Vi. Whom grieuous loue with crucl pyning consumeth and eateth away.Cæca tabe liquefactæ medullæ.Ouid.With inward pining for loue. &c.Funesta tabes veneni.Ouid.The deadly force and infection of poyson.Lenta tabe liquitur. Oui. Hee pineth away with a lingring consumption.Pallida tabes lucri. Lucan. Mortifera tabe tincta sagitta. Oui. Dealy poyson.Nigra distillant inguina tabe. Lucan. Tabes quod propriê tabum nominant.Virg.Putrifactiõ: bloud and rottÊ matter comming out of a wounde: foule bloud.Cruentum tabum. Sil. Terram tabo maculant.Virg.With foule rotten bloud.Turpi dilapsa cadauera tabo.Virg.Nigro tabo squalet.Ouid.Atro tabo fluentia membra.Virg.Infecit pabula tabo. Vir. He stained all the meate with foule bloud.Putri tabo liquentia caduera. Sil. Crasso tabo oblita cuncta rubent.Stat.Mortifera tabe tincta sagitta.Ouid.Vndantem tabem per auras latè toquet serpens. Sil. Arborum tabes. Plinius. Dying and rotting of teees for lack of moysture.Nimborum tabes. Lucret. Destruction of trees and fruites of the earth by outragious tempests.Quomodo vis morborum pretia medentibus, sic fori tabes pecuniam aduocatis fert. Tac. Tabitûdo. pe prod. tabitúdinis, f. g. Idem quod Tabes. Pli.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
tābĕo, ēre, v. n. [tabes], to melt, melt down or away, to waste away, consume (poet.). I.Lit.: aliis rebus concrescunt semina membris, Atque aliis extenuantur tabentque vicissim, Lucr. 4, 1262: corpora tabent, Ov. M. 7, 541: tabentes genae, Verg. A. 12, 221: tabens sanies, Stat. Th. 4, 364: sale tabentes artus in litore ponunt,
dripping
, Verg. A. 1, 173.—II.Trop., to waste away, vanish: seditio tabetne an numeros augificat suos? Enn. ap. Non. 76, 2 (Trag. v. 105 Vahl.).
tābes, is, f. [root in Gr. th/kw, e)ta/khn, to melt; suffix as in plebes, pubes], a wasting away, melting, dwindling, consumptioncorruption, putrefaction; a wasting disease, consumption, decline; plague, pestilence.I.Lit. (class.; syn. lues): aegritudo (habet) tabem, cruciatum, afflictationem, foeditatem, Cic. Tusc. 3, 13, 27: fames lenta nos consumit tabe, Plin. 2, 63, 63, 156: atrox hiems seu parum provisi commeatus et orta ex utroque tabes, Tac. A. 12, 50: orta per Aegyptum, id. H. 5, 3: per tabem tot annorum omnibus consumptis, Liv. 40, 29, 5: cadaveris, Suet. Vit. 10; Luc. 2, 166; 7, 809: corpora ... seu tabe vetustas Abstulerit, Ov. M. 15, 156: multorum tabe mensum mortuum, Liv. 3, 24, 4: arborum, Plin. 17, 24, 37, 225: soli,
barrenness
, id. 8, 21, 33, 79: tanta vis morbi, uti tabes, plerosque civium animos invaserat,
like a consuming fever
, Sall. C. 36, 5; cf.: tanta vis avaritiae, velut tabes, invaserat, etc., id. J. 32, 4; id. Fragm. ap. Fest. p. 359; Liv. 2, 23, 6; cf. id. 7, 22, 5.—Trop.: tabes crescentis fenoris, Liv. 7, 38, 7: infecit ea tabes legionum quoque motas jam mentes, Tac. H. 1, 26; 5, 3: oculorum, id. ib. 4, 81; Ov. M. 2, 807: quos durus amor crudeli tabe peredit, Verg. A. 6, 442; Cels. 3, 22. — II.Transf., concr., the moisture of a melting or decaying substance, corruption (rare, and perh. not ante-Aug.): tabes liquentis nivis, Liv. 21, 36, 6; cf. Sen. Q. N. 4, 2; so, sanguinis, Liv. 30, 34, 10: funesta veneni, Ov. M. 3, 49: tinctaque mortiferā tabe sagitta madet,