elapse Copy link Outline 1. intercēdo, ssi, ssum, 32. interjectus (in abl. absol. constr.)3. intersum, fui4. ăbeo, 4, irr. (to pass away and be lost; the context denoting the terminus ad quem)5. praetĕreo, 4, irr.6. (when the reference is to something still continuing) sum, fui; foll. by quum • elapse: i. e. to pass away in the interval (as time): 1. intercēdo, ssi, ssum, 3: hardly a year had e.d from the time of this conversation ... when, vix annus intercesserat ab hoc sermone, quum, etc., Cic. de Or. 2, 21, 89: also used absol., not a night e.d, nulla nox intercessit, Cic. Cat. 1, 2, init.: Liv. 2. interjectus (in abl. absol. constr.): after a few days had e.d, paucis interjectis diebus, Liv.: Cic.: v. interval. 3. intersum, fui: between his first and sixth consulate 46 years e.d, inter primum et sextum consulatum XLVI. anni interfuerunt, Cic. Sen. 17, 60 (but intersum does not point to the lapse of time, only to the existence of an interval). 4. ăbeo, 4, irr. (to pass away and be lost; the context denoting the terminus ad quem): while you have been wavering thus, ten months have e.d, haec dum dubitas, menses abierunt decem, Ter. Ad. 4, 5, 57: while the fares are being collected ... a whole hour e.s, dum aes exigitur ... tota abit hora, Hor. S. 1, 5, 14. 5. praetĕreo, 4, irr.: v. to pass away. 6. (when the reference is to something still continuing) sum, fui; foll. by quum: many years have e.d since he first ..., multi anni sunt, quum ille est, etc., Cic. Fam. 15, 14, init.: v. since. (N.B.--Not elabor, unless the sense is, to slip out of one's hands, as by indolence.)