verb

col-lăbĕfīo

2nd PP col-lăbefiĕri · 3rd PP colfactus

to be made to reel; totter; to be brought to ruin poetic •

v. pass., to be made to reel or totter, to be brought to ruin (perh. only in the foll. examples): haec (mens animaeque potestas) ipso cum corpore collabefiunt, sink together, Lucr. 3, 585 (601): ut altera (navis) praefracto rostro tota collabefieret, was dashed in pieces, Caes. B. C. 2, 6.— Poet. of the melting of metals, Lucr. 4, 697 (cf. collabefacto; and labefacta, Verg. A. 8, 390).—

to overthrow; supplant figuratively •

Trop., to overthrow, supplant: a Themistocle collabefactus, Nep. Arist. 1, 2.

Perseus ID: n9002 Key: collabefio