Significatio vocis serpo | Babel Free

Definitiones

1. to creep, crawl, move slowly (of an animal)
   conjugation-3
2. to move slowly or imperceptibly, to creep in or along, proceed gradually, to spread (of a thing or situation)
   conjugation-3, figuratively
3. to spread
   conjugation-3

Aequivalentia

Exempla

““Tempus erat quō prīma quiēs mortālibus aegrīs”

“It was the time when the first rest for careworn mortals begins, and as a gift of the gods it creeps in most pleasantly.” (The irony of “incipit” and “serpit”: As the weary Trojans rest, Greek soldiers “creep” from the wooden horse; the nighttime attack “begins”.)

“Cumque ignis magnitudine venti latius serperet, …”

As the fire spread more and more, given favourable wind, …

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