to do any thing superficially

bracchĭum (less correctly brāchĭ-um; gen. bracchi, Lucr. 6, 434), ii, n. [perh. kindr. with Gr. brachiôn; but cf. Sanscr. bāhu; like frango, Sanscr. bhang, Bopp, Gloss. p. 239 a], the arm; particularly,

Lit., the forearm, from the hand to the elbow (while lacertus is the upper arm, from the elbow to the shoulder), Lucr. 4, 830; 6, 397:

bracchia et lacerti,

Ov. M. 1, 501; 1, 550 sq.:

subjecta lacertis bracchia,

id. ib. 14, 305; Curt. 8, 9, 21; 9, 1, 29:

(feminae) nudae bracchia et lacertos,

Tac. G. 17 (opp. umerus); Cels. 8, 1, § 79 sqq.; 8, 10, § 55 sqq.—Far oftener,

Transf.

In gen., the arm, the whole arm, from the shoulder to the fingers, Pac. ap. Non. p. 87, 26, and Varr. L. L. 5, 7, p. 4 Müll.; id. ap. Gell. 16, 16, 4:

quod eum bracchium fregisse diceret,

Cic. de Or. 2, 62, 253; cf. Cels. 1, 10, 3:

multi ut diu jactato bracchio praeoptarent scutum manu emittere et nudo corpore pugnare,

Caes. B. G. 1, 25:

bracchium (sc. dextrum) cohibere togā,

Cic. Cael. 5, 11 (cf. Sen. Contr. 5, 6:

bracchium extra togam exserere): eodem ictu bracchia ferro exsolvunt (i.e. venas incidunt, as, soon after, crurum et poplitum venas abrumpit),

Tac. A. 15, 63; 1, 41.—Of embraces:

collo dare bracchia circum,

to throw the arms round the neck, Verg. A. 6, 700; cf.:

circumdare collo,

Ov. M. 9, 459:

implicare collo,

id. ib. 1, 762:

inicere collo,

id. ib. 3, 389:

cervici dare,

Hor. C. 3, 9, 2:

lentis adhaerens bracchiis,

id. Epod. 15, 6: Hephaestionis bracchium hastā ictum est, Curt. 4, 16, 31:

ut in jaculando bracchia reducimus,

Quint. 10, 3, 6:

sinisteriore bracchio,

Suet. Dom. 17:

bracchia ad superas extulit auras,

Verg. A. 5, 427:

alternaque jactat Bracchia protendens (Dares),

id. ib. 5, 377:

juventus horrida bracchiis,

Hor. C. 3, 4, 50.—Of a rower:

si bracchia forte remisit,

Verg. G. 1, 202:

matri bracchia tendere,

Ov. M. 3, 723:

patrio tendens bracchia caelo,

id. ib. 9, 210:

tendens ad caelum bracchia,

id. ib. 9, 293:

precando Bracchia sustulerat,

id. ib. 6, 262.—Prov.:

dirigere bracchia contra Torrentem,

to swim against the current, Juv. 4, 89.—

Of the movement of the arms in speaking:

bracchii projectione in contentionibus, contractione in remissis,

Cic. Or. 18, 59; so Quint. 11, 3, 84:

extento bracchio paululum de gestu addidit,

Cic. de Or. 2, 59, 242:

demissa bracchia,

Quint. 2, 13, 9:

a latere modice remota,

id. 11, 3, 159:

ut bracchio exserto introspiciatur latus,

id. 11, 3, 118:

aliqui transversum bracchium proferunt et cubito pronunciant,

id. 11, 3, 93:

bracchium in latus jactant,

id. 4, 2, 39:

si contendemus per continuationem, bracchio celeri, mobili vultu utemur,

Auct. Her. 3, 15, 27.—

Of the motion of the arms in dancing:

bracchia in numerum jactare,

Lucr. 4, 769;

imitated by Ov.: numerosa bracchia jactat (ducit, Jahn),

Ov. Am. 2,4,29, and id. R. Am. 754; Lucr. 4, 790; imitated in Ov. A. A. 1, 595; Prop. 2 (3), 22, 6; imitated in Stat. S. 3, 5, 66; cf.

of the labors of the Cyclopes: illi inter sese magnā vi bracchia tollunt In numerum,

Verg. G. 4, 174.—

Trop.: levi or molli bracchio agere aliquid, to do any thing superficially, negligently, remissly (prob. peculiar to the lang. of conversation), Cic. Att. 4, 16, 6; so,

molli bracchio aliquem objurgare,

id. ib. 2, 1, 6.—Prov.:

praebuerim sceleri bracchia nostra tuo,

lend a hand, Ov. H. 7, 126.—

The limbs of animals analogous to the arms of men; of the claws of crawfish, etc., Ov. M. 4, 625; 10, 127; 15, 369; Plin. 9, 31, 51, § 97: hence also of the sign Cancer, Ov. M. 2, 83; also of Scorpio, Verg. G. 1, 34; Ov. M. 2, 82; 2, 195.—Of the claws of the nautilus, Plin. 9, 29, 47, § 88, and other sea-fish, id. 11, 48, 108, § 258.—Of the lion:

in feminum et bracchiorum ossibus,

Plin. 11, 37, 86, § 214.—

Comicé for armus or femur (as inversely armus = bracchium): Ar. Edepol vel elephanto in Indiā Quo pacto pugno perfregisti bracchium. Py. Quid? bracchium? Ar. Illud dicere volui femur, the shoulder, the shoulder-blade of the elephant, Plaut. Mil. 1, 1, 26 sq. Brix ad loc.—

The branches of trees (cf. Ov. M. 1, 550: in ramos bracchia crescunt;

v. also manus and coma): vitem sub bracchia ungito,

Cato, R. R. 95 fin.;

of the vine,

Verg. G. 2, 368; Col. 4, 24, 2; 7, 8 sq.; 5, 5, 9 sq.; Pall. Febr. 9, 6;

id. Mai, 2, 1: quatiens bracchia Quercus,

Cat. 64, 105:

differt quod in bracchia ramorum spargitur,

Plin. 13, 9, 18, § 62:

(aesculus) Tum fortes late ramos et bracchia tendens, etc.,

Verg. G. 2, 296; Ov. M. 14, 630; Val. Fl. 8, 114.—

An arm of the sea:

nec bracchia longo Margine terrarum porrexerat Amphitrite,

Ov. M. 1, 13; Curt. 6, 4, 16.—

The collateral branches or ridges of a mountain:

Taurus ubi bracchia emittit,

Plin. 5, 27, 27, § 98.—

Poet., = antenna, the sail-yards:

jubet intendi bracchia velis,

Verg. A. 5, 829; cf. Stat. S. 5, 1, 244.—

In milit. lang., a ( natural or artificial) outwork or line for connecting two points in fortifications, etc.; Gr. skelê:

aliā parte consul muro Ardeae bracchium injunxerat,

a line of communication, Liv. 4, 9, 14; 38, 5, 8; 22, 52, 1 Drak.; 44, 35, 13; Hirt. B. Alex. 30; id. B. Afr. 38; 49; 51; 56; id. B. Hisp. 5; 6; 13; Curt. 6, 4, 16; Luc. 3, 387; 4, 266.—So of the side-works, moles, dikes, in the fortification of a harbor, Liv. 31, 26, 8; cf. Just. 5, 8, 5 Gron.; Plin. Ep. 6, 31, 15; Suet. Claud. 20.—

The arm of a catapult or ballista, Vitr. 1, 1; 10, 15 sq.

bracchĭum (less correctly brāchĭ-um; gen. bracchi, Lucr. 6, 434), ii, n. [perh. kindr. with Gr. brachiôn; but cf. Sanscr. bāhu; like frango, Sanscr. bhang, Bopp, Gloss. p. 239 a], the arm; particularly,

Lit., the forearm, from the hand to the elbow (while lacertus is the upper arm, from the elbow to the shoulder), Lucr. 4, 830; 6, 397:

bracchia et lacerti,

Ov. M. 1, 501; 1, 550 sq.:

subjecta lacertis bracchia,

id. ib. 14, 305; Curt. 8, 9, 21; 9, 1, 29:

(feminae) nudae bracchia et lacertos,

Tac. G. 17 (opp. umerus); Cels. 8, 1, § 79 sqq.; 8, 10, § 55 sqq.—Far oftener,

Transf.

In gen., the arm, the whole arm, from the shoulder to the fingers, Pac. ap. Non. p. 87, 26, and Varr. L. L. 5, 7, p. 4 Müll.; id. ap. Gell. 16, 16, 4:

quod eum bracchium fregisse diceret,

Cic. de Or. 2, 62, 253; cf. Cels. 1, 10, 3:

multi ut diu jactato bracchio praeoptarent scutum manu emittere et nudo corpore pugnare,

Caes. B. G. 1, 25:

bracchium (sc. dextrum) cohibere togā,

Cic. Cael. 5, 11 (cf. Sen. Contr. 5, 6:

bracchium extra togam exserere): eodem ictu bracchia ferro exsolvunt (i.e. venas incidunt, as, soon after, crurum et poplitum venas abrumpit),

Tac. A. 15, 63; 1, 41.—Of embraces:

collo dare bracchia circum,

to throw the arms round the neck, Verg. A. 6, 700; cf.:

circumdare collo,

Ov. M. 9, 459:

implicare collo,

id. ib. 1, 762:

inicere collo,

id. ib. 3, 389:

cervici dare,

Hor. C. 3, 9, 2:

lentis adhaerens bracchiis,

id. Epod. 15, 6: Hephaestionis bracchium hastā ictum est, Curt. 4, 16, 31:

ut in jaculando bracchia reducimus,

Quint. 10, 3, 6:

sinisteriore bracchio,

Suet. Dom. 17:

bracchia ad superas extulit auras,

Verg. A. 5, 427:

alternaque jactat Bracchia protendens (Dares),

id. ib. 5, 377:

juventus horrida bracchiis,

Hor. C. 3, 4, 50.—Of a rower:

si bracchia forte remisit,

Verg. G. 1, 202:

matri bracchia tendere,

Ov. M. 3, 723:

patrio tendens bracchia caelo,

id. ib. 9, 210:

tendens ad caelum bracchia,

id. ib. 9, 293:

precando Bracchia sustulerat,

id. ib. 6, 262.—Prov.:

dirigere bracchia contra Torrentem,

to swim against the current, Juv. 4, 89.—

Of the movement of the arms in speaking:

bracchii projectione in contentionibus, contractione in remissis,

Cic. Or. 18, 59; so Quint. 11, 3, 84:

extento bracchio paululum de gestu addidit,

Cic. de Or. 2, 59, 242:

demissa bracchia,

Quint. 2, 13, 9:

a latere modice remota,

id. 11, 3, 159:

ut bracchio exserto introspiciatur latus,

id. 11, 3, 118:

aliqui transversum bracchium proferunt et cubito pronunciant,

id. 11, 3, 93:

bracchium in latus jactant,

id. 4, 2, 39:

si contendemus per continuationem, bracchio celeri, mobili vultu utemur,

Auct. Her. 3, 15, 27.—

Of the motion of the arms in dancing:

bracchia in numerum jactare,

Lucr. 4, 769;

imitated by Ov.: numerosa bracchia jactat (ducit, Jahn),

Ov. Am. 2,4,29, and id. R. Am. 754; Lucr. 4, 790; imitated in Ov. A. A. 1, 595; Prop. 2 (3), 22, 6; imitated in Stat. S. 3, 5, 66; cf.

of the labors of the Cyclopes: illi inter sese magnā vi bracchia tollunt In numerum,

Verg. G. 4, 174.—

Trop.: levi or molli bracchio agere aliquid, to do any thing superficially, negligently, remissly (prob. peculiar to the lang. of conversation), Cic. Att. 4, 16, 6; so,

molli bracchio aliquem objurgare,

id. ib. 2, 1, 6.—Prov.:

praebuerim sceleri bracchia nostra tuo,

lend a hand, Ov. H. 7, 126.—

The limbs of animals analogous to the arms of men; of the claws of crawfish, etc., Ov. M. 4, 625; 10, 127; 15, 369; Plin. 9, 31, 51, § 97: hence also of the sign Cancer, Ov. M. 2, 83; also of Scorpio, Verg. G. 1, 34; Ov. M. 2, 82; 2, 195.—Of the claws of the nautilus, Plin. 9, 29, 47, § 88, and other sea-fish, id. 11, 48, 108, § 258.—Of the lion:

in feminum et bracchiorum ossibus,

Plin. 11, 37, 86, § 214.—

Comicé for armus or femur (as inversely armus = bracchium): Ar. Edepol vel elephanto in Indiā Quo pacto pugno perfregisti bracchium. Py. Quid? bracchium? Ar. Illud dicere volui femur, the shoulder, the shoulder-blade of the elephant, Plaut. Mil. 1, 1, 26 sq. Brix ad loc.—

The branches of trees (cf. Ov. M. 1, 550: in ramos bracchia crescunt;

v. also manus and coma): vitem sub bracchia ungito,

Cato, R. R. 95 fin.;

of the vine,

Verg. G. 2, 368; Col. 4, 24, 2; 7, 8 sq.; 5, 5, 9 sq.; Pall. Febr. 9, 6;

id. Mai, 2, 1: quatiens bracchia Quercus,

Cat. 64, 105:

differt quod in bracchia ramorum spargitur,

Plin. 13, 9, 18, § 62:

(aesculus) Tum fortes late ramos et bracchia tendens, etc.,

Verg. G. 2, 296; Ov. M. 14, 630; Val. Fl. 8, 114.—

An arm of the sea:

nec bracchia longo Margine terrarum porrexerat Amphitrite,

Ov. M. 1, 13; Curt. 6, 4, 16.—

The collateral branches or ridges of a mountain:

Taurus ubi bracchia emittit,

Plin. 5, 27, 27, § 98.—

Poet., = antenna, the sail-yards:

jubet intendi bracchia velis,

Verg. A. 5, 829; cf. Stat. S. 5, 1, 244.—

In milit. lang., a ( natural or artificial) outwork or line for connecting two points in fortifications, etc.; Gr. skelê:

aliā parte consul muro Ardeae bracchium injunxerat,

a line of communication, Liv. 4, 9, 14; 38, 5, 8; 22, 52, 1 Drak.; 44, 35, 13; Hirt. B. Alex. 30; id. B. Afr. 38; 49; 51; 56; id. B. Hisp. 5; 6; 13; Curt. 6, 4, 16; Luc. 3, 387; 4, 266.—So of the side-works, moles, dikes, in the fortification of a harbor, Liv. 31, 26, 8; cf. Just. 5, 8, 5 Gron.; Plin. Ep. 6, 31, 15; Suet. Claud. 20.—

The arm of a catapult or ballista, Vitr. 1, 1; 10, 15 sq.

per-fundo, fūdi, fūsum, 3, v. a., to pour over, to wet, moisten, bedew, besprinkle (class.; syn.: umecto, aspergo, imbuo).

Lit.:

aquā ferventi Philodamus perfunditur,

Cic. Verr. 2, 1, 26, § 67:

fluviis pecus,

Verg. G. 3, 445:

greges flumine,

id. ib. 2, 147:

perfusus liquidis odoribus,

Hor. C. 1, 5, 2: postquam perfusus est, had bathed, Auct. Her. 4, 10, 14:

panis perfusus aquā frigidā,

Suet. Aug. 77:

pisces olivo,

Hor. S. 2, 4, 50:

aliquem lacrimis,

Ov. H. 11, 115; so, poet.:

Aurorae lacrimis perfusus,

living far in the East, Sil. 3, 332:

perfundi nardo,

Hor. Epod. 13, 9:

boves hic perfunduntur,

bathe themselves, Varr. R. R. 1, 13, 3; Plin. 18, 7, 14, § 72.—

Transf.

To pour into any thing (post-Aug.):

sextarios musti in vas,

Col. 12, 24, 3.—

To cause to flow out, i. e. to knock out an eye (post-class.):

ut oculus puero perfunderetur,

Dig. 9, 2, 5, § 3 dub. (al. perfodere or effundere).—

Of perspiration or of streams, to pour or flow over, to drench, bathe ( poet. and in post-Aug. prose):

ossaque et artus Perfundit toto proruptus corpore sudor,

Verg. A. 7, 459:

tot amnium fontiumque ubertas totam Italiam perfundens,

Plin. 3, 5, 6, § 41:

Venafrano (oleo) piscem perfundere,

Juv. 5, 86.—

Of garments, to steep, dye ( poet.):

ostro Perfusae vestes,

steeped in purple, Verg. A. 5, 112.—

To scatter or sprinkle over, to besprinkle, bestrew ( poet.):

canitiem immundo perfusam pulvere turpans,

Verg. A. 12, 611:

sanguine currum,

Verg. A. 11, 88:

penates sanguine,

Ov. M. 5, 155:

Lethaeo perfusa papavera somno,

Verg. G. 1, 78:

scena perfusa croco,

Lucr. 2, 416.—

To cover ( poet. and in post-Aug. prose):

omne genus perfusa coloribus,

Lucr. 2, 821:

auro tecta,

Sen. Ep. 115, 9:

pedes amictu,

Mart. 7, 33, 3.—

Of the sun's beams or fire, to flood or fill ( poet. and in post-Aug. prose):

sol perfundens omnia luce,

Lucr. 2, 148; cf. Luc. 7, 215:

cubiculum plurimo sole perfunditur,

Plin. Ep. 5, 6, 24:

campos lumine (facis),

Sil. 10, 558.—

Trop.

To imbue, inspire, fill with any thing (class.):

ad perfundendum animum tamquam illiquefactae voluptates,

Cic. Tusc. 4, 9, 20:

sensus jucunditate quādam perfunditur,

id. Fin. 2, 3, 6:

sensus dulcedine omni quasi perfusi,

id. ib. 2, 34, 114:

di immortales, qui me horror perfudit!

id. Att. 8, 6, 3:

laetitiā,

id. Fin. 5, 24, 70:

gaudio,

Liv. 30, 16:

timore,

id. 2, 63.—

In partic., to fill with the apprehension of any thing, i. e. to disturb, disquiet, alarm:

nos judicio perfundere,

Cic. Rosc. Am. 29, 80:

litora bello rapido,

Sil. 15, 301; cf.:

(Mars) perfusus pectora tempestate belli,

Stat. Th. 3, 228. —

To imbue slightly, make superficially acquainted with any thing (the fig. being borrowed from dyeing;

post-Aug.): perseveret perbibere liberalia studia, non illa, quibus perfundi satis est, sed haec, quibus tingendus est animus,

Sen. Ep. 36, 3; cf.:

acceperit: si illā (notitiā) se non perfuderit, sed infecerit,

id. ib. 110, 8.

lībo, āvi, ātum, 1, v. a. [root lib-, leibô, loibê; cf. Līber, delibutus, etc.], to take a little from any thing.

Lit.

In gen.:

libare gramina dentibus,

to crop, Calp. Ecl. 5, 51.—

In partic.

To take a taste of a thing, to taste:

jecur,

Liv. 25, 16:

pocula Bacchi,

Verg. A. 3, 354:

flumina libant Summa leves,

to sip, id. G. 4, 54.—

Poet., to touch a thing:

cibos digitis,

Ov. A. A. 1, 577:

summam celeri pede libat harenam,

id. M. 10, 653:

cellulae limen,

Petr. 136:

oscula alicujus,

to kiss, Verg. A. 1, 256.—

To pour out in honor of a deity, to make a libation of any thing:

duo rite mero libans carchesia Baccho,

Verg. A. 5, 77:

carchesia patri,

Val. Fl. 5, 274:

Oceano libemus,

Verg. G. 4, 381:

in mensam laticum libavit honorem,

id. A. 1, 740:

pateris altaria libant,

sprinkle, id. ib. 12, 174:

sepulcrum mei Tlepolemi tuo luminum cruore libabo,

App. M. 8, p. 206 fin. —

To pour out or forth:

rorem in tempora nati,

Val. Fl. 4, 15.—

To pour out as an offering, to offer, dedicate, consecrate:

certasque fruges certasque bacas sacerdotes publice libanto,

Cic. Leg. 2, 8, 19:

diis dapes,

Liv. 39, 43:

uvam,

Tib. 1, 11, 21:

frugem Cereri,

Ov. M. 8, 274:

noluit bibere, sed libavit eam (aquam) Domino,

Vulg. 2 Reg. 23, 16. — Absol., to offer libations:

libant diis alienis,

Vulg. Jer. 7, 18:

Domino,

id. 2 Reg. 23, 16:

cum solemni die Jovi libaretur,

Gell. 12, 8, 2.—So poet.:

carmen aris,

Prop. 4 (5), 6, 8:

Celso lacrimas libamus adempto,

Ov. P. 1, 9, 41.—

To lessen, diminish, impair by taking away:

ergo terra tibi libatur et aucta recrescit,

Lucr. 5, 260; id. 5, 568:

virginitatem,

Ov. H. 2, 115:

vires,

Liv. 21, 29.—

Trop., to take out, cull, extract from any thing (rare but class.):

ex variis ingeniis excellentissima quaeque libavimus,

Cic. Inv. 2, 2, 4; cf. id. Tusc. 5, 29, 82:

qui tuo nomini velis ex aliorum laboribus libare laudem,

Auct. Her. 4, 3, 5:

libandus est etiam ex omni genere urbanitatis facetiarum quidem lepos,

Cic. de Or. 1, 34, 159:

a qua (natura deorum) haustos animos et libatos habemus,

id. Div. 1, 49, 110:

unde (i. e. ex divinitate) omnes animos haustos, aut acceptos, aut libatos haberemus,

id. ib. 2, 11, 26: neque ea, ut sua, possedisse, sed ut aliena libāsse. id. de Or. 1, 50, 218.—

To learn something of, acquire superficially:

sed eum (informamus) qui quasdam artes haurire, omnes libare debet,

Tac. Dial. 31 fin.

Lĭbo, ōnis, m., a Roman surname in the gens Marcia and Scribonia, Cic. Att. 12, 5, 3; id. Brut. 23, 89; id. de Or. 2, 65, 263; id. Ac. 1, 1, 3; Hor. Ep. 1, 19, 8.

lībo, āvi, ātum, 1, v. a. [root lib-, leibô, loibê; cf. Līber, delibutus, etc.], to take a little from any thing.

Lit.

In gen.:

libare gramina dentibus,

to crop, Calp. Ecl. 5, 51.—

In partic.

To take a taste of a thing, to taste:

jecur,

Liv. 25, 16:

pocula Bacchi,

Verg. A. 3, 354:

flumina libant Summa leves,

to sip, id. G. 4, 54.—

Poet., to touch a thing:

cibos digitis,

Ov. A. A. 1, 577:

summam celeri pede libat harenam,

id. M. 10, 653:

cellulae limen,

Petr. 136:

oscula alicujus,

to kiss, Verg. A. 1, 256.—

To pour out in honor of a deity, to make a libation of any thing:

duo rite mero libans carchesia Baccho,

Verg. A. 5, 77:

carchesia patri,

Val. Fl. 5, 274:

Oceano libemus,

Verg. G. 4, 381:

in mensam laticum libavit honorem,

id. A. 1, 740:

pateris altaria libant,

sprinkle, id. ib. 12, 174:

sepulcrum mei Tlepolemi tuo luminum cruore libabo,

App. M. 8, p. 206 fin. —

To pour out or forth:

rorem in tempora nati,

Val. Fl. 4, 15.—

To pour out as an offering, to offer, dedicate, consecrate:

certasque fruges certasque bacas sacerdotes publice libanto,

Cic. Leg. 2, 8, 19:

diis dapes,

Liv. 39, 43:

uvam,

Tib. 1, 11, 21:

frugem Cereri,

Ov. M. 8, 274:

noluit bibere, sed libavit eam (aquam) Domino,

Vulg. 2 Reg. 23, 16. — Absol., to offer libations:

libant diis alienis,

Vulg. Jer. 7, 18:

Domino,

id. 2 Reg. 23, 16:

cum solemni die Jovi libaretur,

Gell. 12, 8, 2.—So poet.:

carmen aris,

Prop. 4 (5), 6, 8:

Celso lacrimas libamus adempto,

Ov. P. 1, 9, 41.—

To lessen, diminish, impair by taking away:

ergo terra tibi libatur et aucta recrescit,

Lucr. 5, 260; id. 5, 568:

virginitatem,

Ov. H. 2, 115:

vires,

Liv. 21, 29.—

Trop., to take out, cull, extract from any thing (rare but class.):

ex variis ingeniis excellentissima quaeque libavimus,

Cic. Inv. 2, 2, 4; cf. id. Tusc. 5, 29, 82:

qui tuo nomini velis ex aliorum laboribus libare laudem,

Auct. Her. 4, 3, 5:

libandus est etiam ex omni genere urbanitatis facetiarum quidem lepos,

Cic. de Or. 1, 34, 159:

a qua (natura deorum) haustos animos et libatos habemus,

id. Div. 1, 49, 110:

unde (i. e. ex divinitate) omnes animos haustos, aut acceptos, aut libatos haberemus,

id. ib. 2, 11, 26: neque ea, ut sua, possedisse, sed ut aliena libāsse. id. de Or. 1, 50, 218.—

To learn something of, acquire superficially:

sed eum (informamus) qui quasdam artes haurire, omnes libare debet,

Tac. Dial. 31 fin.

Lĭbo, ōnis, m., a Roman surname in the gens Marcia and Scribonia, Cic. Att. 12, 5, 3; id. Brut. 23, 89; id. de Or. 2, 65, 263; id. Ac. 1, 1, 3; Hor. Ep. 1, 19, 8.