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elapsus

elapsus is a Latin form of elabor, meaning “slip away, escape”. It is the perfect passive participle nominative singular masculine.

Found 34 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Cicero, De Senectute 42: … orum qui in vinculis essent, damnati rei capitalis. hic Tito fratre suo censore, qui proximus ante me fuerat, elapsus est, mihi vero et Flacco neutiquam probari potuit tam flagitiosa et tam perdita libido, quae cum probro priva …

Ovid, Ars Amatoria 1.432: Elapsusque cava fingitur aure lapis?

All forms of elabor (conjugation table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Lewis & Short, A Latin Dictionary (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.