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ē-bĭbo, bi, bĭtum, 3, v. a., to drink up, drain (not in Cic. or Caes.).

  1. I. Lit.: quid comedent? quid ebibent? Ter. Heaut. 2, 3, 14; so with comedere, Plaut. Trin. 2, 1, 20; id. Ps. 5, 2, 11; hirneam vini, id. Am. 1, 1, 276: poculum, id. Curc. 2, 3, 80: ubera lactantia, Ov. M. 6, 342 et saep.: elephantos dracones, i. e. to suck their blood, Plin. 8, 12, 12, § 34; cf. sanguinem, Plaut. Curc. 1, 2, 65: cum vino simitu imperium, to drink up, forget through drinking, Plaut. Am. 2, 1, 84 (cf. in the simplex: bibere mandata, id. Pers. 2, 1, 3, v. bibo).
    Poet.: invenies illic, qui Nestoris ebibat annos, to drink the age of Nestor (i. e. to drink as many glasses as equal the years of Nestor), Ov. F. 3, 533.
    1. B. Transf., of inanimate things, to suck in, draw in, absorb: (fretum) peregrinos amnes, Ov. M. 8, 837; cf. Plin. 5, 15, 15, § 71: saniem (lana), id. 9, 38, 62.
  2. II. In gen., to waste in drink, squander, Hor. S. 2, 3, 122.
  3. III. Trop., to exhaust, remove, take away: spiritum meum, Vulg. Job, 6, 4.