obrepo

ob-rēpo, psi, ptum, 3, v. n., to creep up to any thing, approach stealthily (class.).

I.

Lit.:

et possim mediā quamvis obrepere nocte,

Tib. 1, 9 (8), 59; Flor. 4, 10, 2:

qui Gallos in obsidione Capitolii obrepentes per ardua depulerat,

Gell. 17, 21, 24.—With dat.:

feles quam levibus vestigiis obrepunt avibus!

Plin. 10, 73, 94, § 202.—

II.

Transf.

A.

In gen., to steal upon, come suddenly upon one; to take by surprise, to surprise.

(α).

With dat.:

qui enim citius adulescentiae senectus, quam pueritiae adulescentia obrepit?

Cic. Sen. 2, 4: mihi decessionis dies lelêthotôs obrepebat, id. Att. 6, 5, 3; cf. in the foll. under e:

cui obrepsit oblivio,

Sen. Ben. 3, 2, 1:

vitia nobis sub virtutum nomine obrepunt,

id. Ep. 45, 7.—

(β).

With acc. (ante-class., and in Sall.):

tacitum te obrepet fames,

Plaut. Poen. prol. 14:

si tanta torpedo animos obrepsit,

Sall. H. 1, 49, 19.—

(γ).

With ad:

Plancium non obrepsisse ad honorem,

to creep up to, to come at by stealth, Cic. Planc. 7, 17:

obrepsisti ad honores errore hominum,

id. Pis. 1, 1. —

(δ).

With in and acc.: imagines obrepunt in animos dormientium extrinse cus, Cic. Div. 2, 67, 139; Ambros. Off. Mi. nist. 3, 6, 41.—

(ε).

Absol.:

obrepsit dies,

Cic. Att. 6, 3, 1:

obrepit non intellecta senectus,

Juv. 9, 129.—

B.

In partic., to surprise, deceive, cheat:

numquam tu, credo, me imprudentem obrepseris,

Plaut. Trin. 1, 2, 23; 4, 2, 132; Flor. 4, 10; Gell. 6, 12, 4.— Impers. pass.:

si obreptum praetori sit de libertate,

Dig. 40, 5, 26, § 8; 26, 7, 55, § 4.