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S&H Smith & Hall (2)

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• slip (v.):

I. Lit.: to slide along: lābor, psus, 3: v. to glide. Phr.: the foot more readily s.ing on the incline, in prono citius pede se fallente, Liv. 21, 36, med.: so, Curt. 4, 9, ad fin., quum saxa lubrica vestigium fallerent: cf. Virg. Aen. 5, 331, vestigia haud tenuit.
II. Fig.: to escape: esp. in phr. to let slip. Phr.: to let s. an opportunity, occasionem amittere, Caes. B. G. 3, 13; praetermittere, id. B. C. 3, 25; dimittere, Nep. Milt. 3; occasioni deesse, Caes. B. C. 3, 79. See also foll. artt.

I. To allow to run out: to s. her cable (of a ship), perh. retinacula omittere.
II. To convey secretly: furtim dare, inserere, tradere.

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• slip (subs.):

I. Lit.: lapsus, ūs (slippery movement): Liv. Of the foot, in walking, vestigii lapsus (R. and A.).
II. Fig.: miss, mistake, fault: Phr.: 'twixt cup and lip there's many a s., inter os et offam (quod aiunt) multa intervenire possunt, Cato in Gell. 13, 17: to make a s., errare, labi, peccare (v. to err, mistake): that was a s. of memory (in an author), memoria lapsus est (R. and A.): per oblivionem in errorem incidit, cf. Suet. Caes. 28: s.s of memory, memoriae labentis offensationes, Sen. Ben. 5, extr.: lapsus memoriae (Kr.): v. error.
III. A twig separated from the main stock:

1. surcŭlus (usu. but not always a shoot from the ground): to break off a s. (from a tree), s. defringere ex. ..., Cic. de Or. 3, 28, 110 (fig.): to plant off a s., s. transferre, Col. 3, 10.
2. planta (more freq. a rooted plant: cf. Pall. 5, 2): to knock off a s. from a bough, p. de ramulo deferre, Varr. R. R. 1, 55: to set a s., p. deponere in horto, Ov. R. Am. 193.
3. virga (a twig): to set a s., v. deplantare, Col. 3, 10 (Ov. M. 14, 630 = a slip for grafting).

R&A Riddle & Arnold (1)

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s. A false step,
PROP., vestigii lapsus. To make a slip, vestigio falli: to make a slip and fall, vestigio fallente cadere.
ImPROP., lapsus (departure from what is right): error (a mistake): peccatum (an offence): to make a slip, labi; peccare: “there’s many a slip ‘twixt the cup and the lip,” iuter os et offam (sc. multa intervenire possunt; a proverb of Cato’s, Gell., 13, 17); multa cadunt inter calicem supremaque labra (a translation of πολλὰ μεταξὺ πέλει κύλικος καὶ χείλεος ἄκρου; Vid: Facciol., in ANaeUS): a slip of the memory, offensatio memoriae (labentis); or by circumlocution with memoria labi (e.g., to do anything from a slip of the memory, memoria lapsum facere aliquid, or perperam edere aliquid).
A branch set in the ground, surculus.
A long thin board, etc., *pala.
A noose, Vid:
PHR., To give the slip, excidere: elabi. (The words are found in this connection and order.) excidere atque elabi.

v. Intransitively, vestigio falli: vestigio fallente cadere (when one slips and falls). My foot slips, me instabilis gradus fallit (Curt., 7, 11, 16); vestigium fallit (Plin., Ep., 2, 1, 5): one’s foot slips on the ice, glacies vestigium non recipit (Liv., 21, 36): to slip on the sleep rocks, praerupta saxa vestigium fallunt (Curt., 4, 9, 18); se subducere (as earth slips): to let an opportunity slip, occasionem amittere (Terentianus), omittere (Cic.): to slip out, excidere; elabi (both PROP. and figuratively). (The words are found in this connection and order.) excidere atque elabi: a thing slips out of my hands, aliquid de manibus excidit, delabitur, fluit; aliquid mihi excidit atque elabitur: a word slips out from me, verbum (or vox) excidit or elabitur (ex ore): a thing slips from my memory, excidit or effluit aliquid ex animo; elabitur aliquid memoria; exit res memoria: the name has slipped from me, nomen perdidi: to slip through or away, perlabi per, etc. (to slip through entirely, etc.); elabi (to give the slip; with custodiae, of a prisoner); evadere (to escape); se subducere, subtrahere, surripere (to get out of the way quickly and imperceptibly).
Transitively, To slip a knot, nodum solvere, expedire.

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