I.to drink up, drain (not in Cic. or Caes.).
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. —
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.—
II. In gen., to waste in drink, squander, Hor. S. 2, 3, 122. —