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reptābundus, a, um, adj. [repto], creeping, crawling (post-Aug.): effusus in voluptates, reptabundus (al. vagabundus) semper atque ebrius, Sen. Vit. Beat. 12.
Trop.: (virtutem) ex intervallo ingenti reptabundus sequar, Sen. Vit. Beat. 18 (dub.; al. ructabundus).
* reptātĭo, ōnis, f. [repto], a creeping, crawling: infantium per manus et genua, Quint. 1, 12, 10.
reptātus, ūs, m. [repto], a creeping, crawling (post-Aug., and only in abl. sing.).
- I. Lit.: spumans limacum, Tert. Anim. 10 med.
- II. Transf., of plants: vitium, Plin. 14, 1, 3, § 13.
reptĭlis, e, adj. [repo], creeping, reptile: cochleae, Sid. Ep. 3, 12.
Neutr. as subst.: reptĭle, is, a reptile, Vulg. Gen. 1, 24; id. Deut. 4, 18.
repto, āvi, ātum, 1, v. freq. n. and a. [id.], to creep, crawl (mostly poet. and postAug.; a favorite word with Claud.).
- I. Neutr.
- A. Lit., of animals and men, Plin. 9, 30, 50, § 95: chamaeleon humi reptans, Gell. 10, 12, 2: anguis reptans, Claud. III. Cons. Stil. 172; id. III. Cons. Hon. 22; id. Rufin. 1, 93; id. Eutr. 2, 443 al.
- B. Transf., of persons walking slowly or lazily: major pars populi aridi reptant fame, Plaut. Fragm. ap. Gell. 3, 3, 5.
Of beasts: pecudes, Lucr. 2, 318: an tacitum silvas inter reptare salubris, Hor. Ep. 1, 4, 4: per limitem, Plin. Ep. 1, 24, 4; 9, 26, 2.
Of plants, Plin. 19, 5, 24, § 69.
- II. Act., to creep or crawl through. So only in part. perf.: rep-tātus, a, um, crept or crawled through: ager (ab angue), Stat. Th. 5, 581: Creta tenero Tonanti, Claud. IV. Cons. Hon. 134; cf.: amnis tenero Achilli, id. Rufin. 2, 180: Delos geminis numinibus, Pac. Pan. Theod. 4 fin.