collabefio

col-lăbĕfīo ( conl- ), factus, fiĕri, v. pass., to be made to reel or totter, to be brought to ruin (perh. only in the foll. examples):

haec (mens animaeque potestas) ipso cum corpore collabefiunt,

sink together, Lucr. 3, 585 (601):

ut altera (navis) praefracto rostro tota collabefieret,

was dashed in pieces, Caes. B. C. 2, 6.— Poet. of the melting of metals, Lucr. 4, 697 (cf. collabefacto;

and labefacta,

Verg. A. 8, 390 ).—

II.

Trop., to overthrow, supplant:

a Themistocle collabefactus,

Nep. Arist. 1, 2.