hebeo

hĕbĕo, ēre, v. n., to be blunt or dull (perh. not ante-Aug.).

I.

Lit.:

ferrum nunc hebet?

Liv. 23, 45, 9.—

II.

Trop., to be dull, sluggish, inactive, not lively:

gelidus tardante senecta Sanguis hebet,

Verg. A. 5, 396:

corpus hebet somno,

Val. Fl. 4, 41:

stella hebet,

id. 5, 371:

et jam Plias hebet,

Luc. 2, 722:

ipsi hebent mira diversitate naturae, cum iidem homines sic ament inertiam et oderint quietem,

lounge about, Tac. G. 15:

quid stolidi ad speciem notae novitatis hebetis?

are amazed, Aus. Epigr. 69:

temporis adversi sic mihi sensus hebet,

Ov. Tr. 4, 1, 48:

olim annis ille ardor hebet,

Val. Fl. 1, 53:

hebent irae,

Stat. Th. 11, 386.