labascor

lăbasco, ĕre, v. n. inch., and lăba-scor, ci, v. dep. [labo], to totter, be ready to fall (ante-and post-class.).

I.

Lit.:

quod crebro tunditur ictu, vincitur in longo spatio tamen atque labascit,

Lucr. 4, 1285; 1, 537.—

II.

Trop., to waver, give way, yield. —Form labascor, Att. ap. Non. 473, 9:

postquam vidit misericordia labasci mentem infirmam populi,

Varr. ib. 473, 11.—Form labasco:

leno labascit,

Plaut. Rud. 5, 3, 38:

labascit victus uno verbo,

Ter. Eun. 1, 2, 98; id. Ad. 2, 2, 31:

animum vi quadam nova ictum labascere,

Gell. 15, 2, 7.