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|lshtext=<b>lambo</b>: bi, bitum (<br /><b>I</b> perf. lambuerunt, Vulg. Jud. 7, 7 al.), 3, v. a. [[root]] [[lap]]-; Gr. [[λάπτω]], [[λαφύσσω]]>; Lat. [[labrum]], [[labium]]; Germ. Löffel, [[spoon]]; Eng. [[lip]], to [[lick]], [[lap]]; to [[touch]] ([[class]].; cf.: [[lingo]], [[sugo]], [[ligurio]]).<br /><b>I</b> Lit.: hi [[canes]], quos [[tribunal]] [[meum]] vides lambere, Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 11, § 28: lagonae [[collum]], Phaedr. 1, 25, 10: [[lambent]] cibos (pisces), Col. 8, 17, 11: manum, Mart. 4, 30, 4: sanguinem, Plin. [[Pan]]. 48, 3: [[crustula]], Juv. 9, 5: jucundasque [[puer]] qui lamberat [[ore]] placentas, Lucil. ap. Prisc. 10, 3, 14: [[lambent]] sanguinem, to [[lick]] up, to [[lap]], Vulg. 3 Reg. 21, 9; cf. id. Judic. 7, 5 al.: te gurgite mersum [[unda]] feret, piscesque inpastivulnera [[lambent]], Verg. A. 10, 560.—<br /><b>II</b> Transf., of a [[river]], to [[flow]] by, to [[wash]], [[bathe]]: vel quae loca [[fabulosus]] Lambit [[Hydaspes]], washes, Hor. C. 1, 22, 7.—Of [[fire]], to [[lick]], to [[reach]], [[play]] [[upon]]: [[flamma]] summum properabat lambere [[tectum]], Hor. S. 1, 5, 73: innoxia [[mollis]] Lambere [[flamma]] comas (Iuli), Verg. A. 2, 684: [[Aetna]] attollit globos flammarum et sidera lambit, id. ib. 3, 574.—Of the [[ivy]]: quorum imagines lambunt hederae sequaces, to [[encircle]], Pers. prol. 5: Tedia non lambit Cluviam, [[caress]], [[fondle]], Juv. 2, 49: [[tribunal]] unius legati, to [[fawn]] [[upon]], [[court]], Amm. 15, 3, 3.—In mal. [[part]]., Aus. Ep. 120, 1 et saep.