Titubo, titubas pe cor. titubâre. Quint. To stagger in speaking or going: to stumble: to trip: to faile in words.Ille mero, somnoque grauis titubare videtur.Ouid. Titubare, ad animum transfertur.Plaut.To faile or trip in wordes: to misse: to erre.Nihil titubarunt.Cic.Siveibo titubarint.Cic.If they trip or faile in a worde.Titubare & peccare.Cic.Si tantulum offensum, titubatumque sit.Cic.If they faile or trippe in any thing be it nener so little.Verum illa nequid titubet. Ter. But it is to be feared leaste shee trip or misse in any point.Caue ne titubes, mandataque frangas. Hor. See that thou trip not, or faile not.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
tĭtŭbo, āvi, ātum, 1, v. n. and a., to stagger, totter, reel.I.Lit. (rare; cf.: vacillo, labo); of drunken persons: Silenus titubans annisque meroque, Ov. M. 11, 90: mero somnoque gravis titubare videtur, id. ib. 3, 608; 4, 26; 15, 331; cf.: titubans pes, Phaedr. 4, 14, 12: vestigia titubata,
tottering
, Verg. A. 5, 332: titubat lingua,
stammers
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stutters
, Ov. A. A. 1, 598.—II.Trop., to hesitate, falter, waver, be in suspense, be embarrassed or perplexed (class.): Licinius titubans, Cic. Cael. 28, 66: cave ne titubes mandataque frangas, Hor Ep. 1, 13, 19 Orell. ad loc.: fac titubet blaeso subdola lingua sono, Ov. A. A. 1, 598: erubuisse, expalluisse, titubasse, Auct. Her. 2, 5, 8: testes, si verbo titubarint, Cic. Fl. 10, 22: at vide, ne titubes, Plaut. Ps. 4, 1, 32; id. Mil. 2, 2, 93: lacrumans titubanti animo, corde et pectore, id. ib. 1, 1, 43: hic omnibus titubantibus et de rebus summis desperantibus, Nep. Eum. 9, 2: quid agat, ne quid titubet, Plaut. Ps. 2, 4, 75: verum illa ne quid titubet, Ter. Heaut. 2, 3, 120; Quint. 5, 7, 11: nihil, Cic. Att. 2, 9, 2; cf. impers. pass.: ne quid titubetur, Plaut. Mil. 3, 3, 70: si quid forte titubatum est, ut fit in bello, Cic. Fam. 12, 10, 2: versus debilitatur, in quācumque ejus sit parte titubatum, id. de Or. 3, 50, 192.—Hence, tĭtŭbanter, adv., loosely, totteringly.A.Lit.: lapis, quem artifex titubanter aptaverat fundae, Amm. 24, 4, 28. — B.Trop., hesitatingly, falteringly: titubanter et inconstanter loqui de aliquā re, Auct. Her. 4, 41, 53: titubanter et strictim, Cic. Cael. 7, 15.
