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Ἐν γὰρ γυναιξὶ πίστιν οὐκ ἔξεστ' ἰδεῖν → Vix feminarum in genere reperies fidem → Bei Frauen lässt sich Treue nämlich nicht erspäh'n

Menander, Monostichoi, 161

Latin > English (Lewis & Short)

al-lābor: (adl-), lapsus, 3, v. dep.,
I to glide to or toward something, to come to, to fly, fall, flow, slide, and the like; constr. with dat. or acc. (poet.—oftenest in Verg.— or in more elevated prose): viro adlapsa sagitta est, Verg. A. 12, 319: fama adlabitur aurīs, id. ib. 9, 474: Curetum adlabimur oris, we land upon, etc., id. ib. 3, 131; cf. id. ib. 3, 569: mare crescenti adlabitur aestu, rolls up with increasing wave, id. ib. 10, 292: adlapsus genibus, falling down at his knees, Sen. Hippol. 666.—In prose: umor adlapsus extrinsecus, * Cic. Div. 2, 27, 58: angues duo ex occulto adlapsi, Liv. 25, 16.