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lăbĭa or lăbĕa, ae, f., and lăbĭum, ii, n. [Gr. λάπτω; Lat. lambo, labrum, labeo; cf. Germ. Lippe; Engl. lip],

  1. I. a lip (form labia, ante- and post-class. for labrum; labium, also post-Aug.: Verrius Flaccus sic distinxit, modica esse labra, labia immodica et inde labiones dici, Charis. p. 79 P.): dejecta labia, App. M. 3, p. 140.
    In neutr.: labium, Seren. ap. Non. 210, 21.
    More freq. in plur.: age tibicen: refer ad labias tibias, Plaut. Stich. 5, 4, 41: tremulus labeis demissis, Ter. Eun. 2, 3, 44; Nigid. ap. Gell. 10, 4, 4: labiae pendulae, App. M. 3, p. 140.
    Form labea, Pompon. ap. Non. 456, 43: labearum ductu, Gell. 18, 4, 6.
    In neutr.: salivosa labia, App. Mag. p. 313: labiorum fissuris mederi, Plin. 29, 3, 11, § 46: ulcera labiorum, id. 34, 11, 27, § 115; Quint. 11, 3, 160 dub.; Lact. Opif. D. 10, 13; Just. 1, 10, 15; 15, 3, 4.
    Prov.: labiis ductare aliquem, to ridicule, make game of one, Plaut. Mil. 2, 1, 15.
  2. II. Transf., the axle or some other part of an oil-press: labiam bifariam facito, Cato, R. R. 20, 2.

Lăbīci (Lăvīci), ōrum, m. (Lăbī-cum, i, n., Sil. 12, 534),

  1. I. a town of Latium, between Tusculum and Præneste, now Colonna, Cic. Agr. 2, 35, 96; Liv. 3, 39; 4, 45: arva Labici, Sil. 12, 534.
    Hence,
  2. II.
    1. A. Lăbīci, ōrum, m., the inhabitants of Labicum, the Labici (poet.): picti scuta Labici, Verg. A. 7, 796; Sil. 8, 368.
    2. B. Lăbī-cānus (scanned Lābīcānus, Mart. 1, 89), a, um, adj., of or belonging to Labicum, Labican: ager, Liv. 26, 9, 11: via, leading from Rome to Labicum, id. 4, 41: vicinitas, Cic. Planc. 9, 23.
      1. 2. Subst.
        1. a. Lăbī-cāni, ōrum, m., the inhabitants of Labicum, Labicans, Liv. 4, 45; 6, 21.
        2. b. Lă-bīcānus, i, m. (sc. ager), the territory of Labicum: habuit fundum in Labicano, Cic. Par. 6, 3, 50.

* lābĭdus, a, um, adj. [1. labor], where one is apt to fall, slippery: iter, Vitr. 6 prooem.

Lăbĭēnus, i, m., the name of several Romans. In partic.,

  1. I. T. Atius L., a legate of Cæsar in Gaul, who afterwards went over to Pompey, Caes. B. G. 1, 10; Hirt. ib. 8, 52; Caes. B. C. 3, 13; Cic. Att. 7, 11, 1.
    1. B. Hence, Lăbĭēnĭānus, a, um, adj., of Labienus: milites, Auct. B. Afr. 29, 2.
  2. II. Q. Atius L., an uncle of the former, an adherent of Saturninus, Cic. Rab. Perd. 5 and 7.
  3. III. A rhetorician, who, from the boldness and fierceness of his disposition, was called Rabienus, Sen. Contr. 5 praef.

lābĭlis, e, adj. [1. labor], (post-class. for caducus, infirmus, debilis).

  1. I. Slipping, gliding, prone to slip or slide.
    1. A. Lit.: humus rivis operta sanguineis, gressus labiles evertebat, Amm. 31, 13, 6; Arnob. 2, 59.
    2. B. Trop., fleeting, gliding, prone, transient, perishable: in vitia labiles animae, Arnob. 2, 45: dulcedo, id. 7, 4 init.
  2. II. Causing to slip, slippery: limus, Amm. 27, 10, 11: humus, id. 15, 10, 5.
    Hence. lābĭlĭter, adv., waveringly, Aug. Gen. ad Litt. B. 3.

lābīna, ae, f. [labes], a slippery place (post-class.), Isid. 16, 1, 4.

‡ lăbĭo, ōnis, m. [labium], having large lips, big-lipped, acc. to Verr. Fl. ap. Charis. p. 79 P.; v. labia init.

lăbĭōsus, v. labeosus.

lăbĭum, ii, v. labia.