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labem

labem is a Latin form of labo, meaning “totter, waver, give way”. It is the 1st person singular present active subjunctive.

It can also be a form of labes, “fall; stain, blemish, disgrace”.

Found 38 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Cicero, In C. Verrem 1.1.2: … exteris nationibus possetis, depeculatorem aerari, vexatorem Asiae atque Pamphyliae, praedonem iuris urbani, labem atque perniciem provinciae Siciliae.

All forms of labo (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.