adcubo

ac-cŭbo ( adc. ), āre, 1, v. n., t. t. (the forms accubui and accubitum belong to accumbo), to lie near or by a thing.

I.

In gen., constr. with dat. or absol.:

quoi bini castodes semper accubant,

Plaut. Mil. 2, 2, 57:

Furiarum maxima juxta accubat,

Verg. A. 6, 606:

accubantes effodiunt,

Plin. 35, 6, 19, § 37.—Rarely with acc.:

lectum,

App. M. 5, p. 160.—Of things:

nigrum nemus,

Verg. G. 3, 334:

cadus (vini),

Hor. C. 4, 12, 18.—Also of places (for adjacere):

theatrum Tarpeio monti accubans,

Suet. Caes. 44.—Esp.

II.

To recline at table (in the Rom. manner):

accubantes in conviviis,

Cic. Cat. 2, 5, 10; so,

in convivio,

Nep. Pel. 3, 2; Cic. Tusc. 3, 23:

morem apud majores hunc epularum fuisse, ut deinceps, qui accubarent, canerent ad tibiam, etc.,

Cic. Tusc. 4, 2, 3; cf.:

regulus accubans epulari coepit,

Liv. 41, 2, 12;

so,

absol., Plaut. Stich. 2, 3, 53; Ter. Eun. 4, 5, 2; Suet. Caes. 49 al.:

cum aliquo,

Plaut. Trin. 2, 4, 72:

infra,

Liv. 39, 43, 3:

contra,

Suet. Aug. 98.—

B.

To lie with, Plaut. Bacch. 1, 1, 39; 3, 3, 50; Suet. Vesp. 21.