collabor

col-lābor ( conl- ), lapsus (or labsus), 3, v. dep., to fall together, to fall in ruins; esp. of buildings, to fall in, fall from age (in the ante-Aug. period very rare; not in Cic., Hor., or Quint.).

I.

Prop., Liv. 35, 9, 3:

moenia subito collapsa ruinā sunt,

id. 29, 18, 17; Suet. Aug. 30; id. Claud. 25; id. Calig. 21:

fastigium domūs collabitur,

id. Caes. 81:

qui collapsā jacuere ruinā,

Sil. 7, 727:

succisis asseribus collapsus pons,

Liv. 44, 5, 6. postquam conlapsi cineres, Verg. A. 6, 226:

eodem anno duodecim celebres Asiae urbes collapsae nocturno motu terrae,

Tac. A. 2, 47:

AEDES VETVSTATE COLLAPSA,

Inscr. Orell. 26.—Of persons, to fall or sink down in a swoon or in death:

suscipiunt famulae collapsaque membra Marmoreo referunt thalamo,

Verg. A. 4, 391; 8, 584; Ov. M. 7, 826; 5, 96; 6, 295; Tac. A. 2, 31; Suet. Ner. 42; Curt. 4, 10, 19; 7, 6, 22; 8, 2, 39; Petr. 94; Val. Fl. 7, 152; Stat. Achill. 1, 195; cf.:

ferro collapsa,

Verg. A. 4, 664.—

B.

Transf.:

ossa morbo collapsa,

Verg. G. 3, 485: collapsa tempora, oculi concavi, temples fallen in or sunken, Cels. 2, 6:

iter urinae senectute collapsum,

id. 7, 26.—

II.

Trop. (very rare):

in corruptelam suam,

Plaut. Truc. 3, 2, 3:

ira in se ipsa collapsa,

Val. Max. 6, 2, 10:

in fata,

Cod. Just. 5, 14, 9.