sorbeo: Difference between revisions

|lshtext=<b>sorbĕo</b>: ŭi, 2 (collat. forms:<br /><b>I</b> pres. subj. sorbamus, App. M. 2, p. 119; perf. sorpsi, acc. to [[Charis]]. p. 217, and Diom. p. 363; cf. the compounds), v. a. [[akin]] [[with]] Gr. [[ῥοφέω]]; cf. O. H. Germ. swarb, swirbil, [[whirlpool]], to [[sup]] up, [[suck]] in, [[drink]] [[down]], [[swallow]] (freq. and [[class]].).<br /><b>I</b> Lit. ([[class]].; syn. [[haurio]]): hominum sanguinem, Plaut. Bacch. 3, 1, 5: calidum sanguinem ex homine, Plin. 28, 1, 2, § 4: crudum [[ovum]], id. 29, 3, 11, § 42; Luc. 7, 843: margaritas [[aceto]] liquefactas, Suet. Calig. 37 et saep.—Absol.: sorbet dormiens, Plaut. Mil. 3, 2, 6 sq.—Prov.: [[simul]] [[flare]] sorbereque [[haud]] [[facile]], to [[drink]] and [[whistle]] at the [[same]] [[time]], i. e. to do [[two]] things at [[once]], Plaut. Most. 3, 2, 104.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>B</b> Transf., to [[suck]] in, [[draw]] in, [[swallow]] up, [[absorb]] ([[poet]]. and in [[post]]-Aug. [[prose]]), Lucr. 6, 1130: ([[Charybdis]] vastos) Sorbet in abruptum [[fluctus]], Verg. A. 3, 422: [[fretum]], Ov. M. 7, 64: flumina, id. ib. 1, 40: sorbent avidae [[praecordia]] flammae, id. ib. 9, 172: (quae sorbuit terrae [[hiatus]]), Plin. 2, 80, 82, § 194: [[minus]] sorbet [[politura]] [[charta]], id. 13, 12, 25, § 81: quā sorbeat aëra sannā [[Tullia]], Juv. 6, 306.—<br /><b>II</b> Trop., to [[swallow]] [[down]], [[endure]], [[bear]], [[brook]], etc.: [[quid]] eum non sorbere [[animo]], [[quid]] non haurire cogitatione, [[cuius]] sanguinem non bibere censetis? Cic. Phil. 11, 5, 10: odia (corresp. to concoquere), id. Q. Fr. 3, 9, 5.