(of time), praeterire: transire (to pass by): *intercedere: interponi: interesse: interjectum esse (to be placed between one event or point of time and a subsequent one): peragi: confici (to be spent): circumagi (to roll round): consumi (to be consumed): effluere (to pass away rapidly and unprofitably; not simply “to elapse”). ☞ Not praeterlabi; nor elabi, elapsus, except in the sense of slipping away unprofllably; as Sen.; magna vitae pars elabitur male agentibus. Hardly a year had elapsed since this conversation occurred, vix annus intercesserat ab hoc sermone: ten days had not yet elapsed, dies nondum decem intercesserant: after two years were already elapsed, biennio jam confecto. Nearly thirty years elapsed between the building of Lavinium and the founding the colony of Alba Longa, inter Lavinium et Albam Longam deductam triginta ferme interfuere anni: two years have elapsed, amplius sunt sex anni.