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|lshtext=<b>flŭo</b>: xi, xum, 3 (archaic form of the<br /><b>I</b> [[sup]].: FLUCTUM, acc. to Prisc. p. 817 P.; cf.: [[fluo]], fluctum, Not. Tir. From this form are [[derived]] [[fluctio]] and [[fluctus]]. In Lucr. 6, 800, the [[correct]] [[read]]. is laveris, not flueris, v. Lachm. ad h. l.), v. n. Gr. φλυ-, φλῦσαι, [[ἀναφλύω]]>, etc.; Lat. [[fleo]], [[fletus]]; [[flumen]], [[fluctus]], etc.; orig. one [[root]] [[with]] fla-, to [[blow]], q. v. and cf. Curt. Gr. Etym. p. 302, to [[flow]] (cf.: [[mano]], [[labor]], etc.).<br /><b>I</b> Lit.: per amoenam urbem leni fluit agmine [[flumen]], Enn. ap. Macr. S. 6, 4 (Ann. v. 177 ed. Vahl.); cf.: ut flumina in contrarias partes fluxerint, Cic. Div. 1, 35, 78: [[flumen]] [[quod]] [[inter]] eum et Domitii [[castra]] fluebat, Caes. B. C. 3, 37, 1; cf. also: [[aurea]] tum dicat per terras flumina [[vulgo]] Fluxisse, Lucr. 5, 911: [[fluvius]] [[Eurotas]], qui [[propter]] Lacedaemonem fluit, Cic. Inv. 2, 31, 96: Helvetiorum [[inter]] fines et Allobrogum [[Rhodanus]] fluit, Caes. B. G. 1, 6, 2: [[Arar]] in utram partem fluat, id. ib. 1, 12, 1: ea, quae [[natura]] fluerent [[atque]] manarent, ut [[aqua]], Cic. N. D. 1, 15, 39: [[fluens]] [[unda]], [[water]] from a [[stream]] (opp.: [[putealis]] [[unda]], [[spring]]-[[water]]), Col. 1, 5, 1: in foveam, Lucr. 2, 475; cf. id. 5, 271: fluxit in terram [[Remi]] [[cruor]], Hor. Epod. 7, 19; cf. Luc. 6, 61: [[imber]], Ov. P. 4, 4, 2: [[sanguis]], id. M. 12, 312: fluit de corpore [[sudor]], id. ib. 9, 173; cf.: [[sudor]] fluit [[undique]] rivis, Verg. A. 5, 200: aes rivis, id. ib. 8, 445: [[nudo]] sub pede musta fluunt, Ov. R. Am. 190: madidis fluit [[unda]] capillis, drips, id. M. 11, 656: [[cerebrum]] molle fluit, id. ib. 12, 435: fluunt lacrimae [[more]] [[perennis]] aquae, id. F. 2, 820: [[fluens]] [[nausea]], Hor. Epod. 9, 35; cf.: [[alvus]] [[fluens]], Cels. 2, 6: fluit ignibus [[aurum]], becomes [[fluid]], melts, Ov. M. 2, 251.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>B</b> Transf.<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>1</b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Of bodies, to [[flow]], [[overflow]], [[run]] [[down]], [[drip]] [[with]] [[any]] [[fluid]].— With abl.: cum [[fluvius]] [[Atratus]] [[sanguine]] fluxit, Cic. Div. 1, 43, 98; Ov. M. 8, 400: cruore [[fluens]], id. ib. 7, 343: sudore [[fluentia]] brachia, id. ib. 9, 57; cf.: fluunt sudore et lassitudine membra, Liv. 38, 17, 7; 7, 33, 14; cf. id. 10, 28, 4: pingui fluit unguine [[tellus]], Val. Fl. 6, 360: vilisque rubenti Fluxit [[mulctra]] mero, overflows, Sil. 7, 190. —Without abl.: madidāque [[fluens]] in veste [[Menoetes]], Verg. A. 5, 179: fluentes cerussataeque buccae, [[dripping]] [[with]] [[paint]], Cic. Pis. 11, 25 (cf. Cic. de Or. 2, 66, 266, 2. b. [[infra]]): Graeculae vites acinorum exiguitate [[minus]] fluunt, i. e. [[yield]] [[but]] [[little]] [[wine]], Col. 3, 2, 24; 3, 2, 5; 12, 52, 1.—With acc. of [[kin]]. signif.: [[Oenotria]] vina [[fluens]], Claud. Laud. Stil. 2, 264.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>2</b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; To [[move]] in the [[manner]] of fluids, to [[flow]], [[stream]], [[pour]]: [[inde]] [[alium]] (aëra) [[supra]] fluere, to [[flow]], Lucr. 5, 514 and 522: [[unde]] [[fluens]] volvat [[varius]] se [[fluctus]] odorum, id. 4, 675 sq.; cf.: [[principio]] omnibus a rebus, quascumque videmus, Perpetuo fluere ac mitti spargique [[necesse]] est Corpora, quae feriant oculos visumque lacessant: Perpetuoque fluunt certis ab rebus odores, Frigus ut a fluviis, [[calor]] a [[sole]], [[aestus]] ab undis Aequoris, id. 6, 922 sq.: [[aestus]] e lapide, id. 6, 1002: venti, id. 1, 280: fluit [[undique]] [[victor]] [[Mulciber]], Sil. 17, 102: comae per levia colla fluentes, [[flowing]], spreading, Prop. 2, 3, 13; cf.: blanditiaeque fluant per mea colla rosae, id. 4 (5), 6, 72: [[vestis]] [[fluens]], [[flowing]], [[loose]], id. 3, 17 (4, 16), 32: tunicisque fluentibus, Ov. A. A. 3, 301: nodoque [[sinus]] [[collecta]] fluentes, Verg. A. 1, 320; cf. also: [[balteus]] nec strangulet nec fluat, Quint. 11, 3, 140: nec mersa est pelago, nec fluit ulla [[ratis]], floats, is tossed [[about]], Mart. 4, 66, 14: ramos compesce fluentes, floating [[around]], spreading [[out]], Verg. G. 2, 370: ad terram fluit devexo pondere [[cervix]], droops, id. ib. 3, 524: omnisque relictis Turba fluit castris, [[pour]] [[forth]], id. A. 12, 444: olli fluunt ad [[regia]] tecta, id. ib. 11, 236; so of a [[multitude]] or [[crowd]] of men: densatis ordinibus [[effuse]] fluentem in se aciem excepere, Curt. 6, 1, 6.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>b</b> Pregn., of bodies, to [[pass]] [[away]], [[fall]] [[away]], to [[fall]] [[off]] or [[out]], to [[vanish]]: excident gladii, [[fluent]] [[arma]] de manibus, Cic. Phil. 12, 3, 8: capilli fluunt, Cels. 6, 1; Plin. 27, 4, 5, § 17: [[sponte]] [[fluent]] (poma) matura suā, Ov. Am. 2, 14, 25: [[quasi]] [[longinquo]] fluere omnia cernimus aevo, Lucr. 2, 69; cf.: cuncta fluunt omnisque vagans formatur [[imago]], Ov. M. 15, 178: dissolvuntur [[enim]] tum [[demum]] membra fluuntque, Lucr. 4, 919: surae fluxere, Luc. 9, 770: buccae fluentes, [[fallen]] in, [[lank]], Cic. de Or. 2, 66, 266.<br /><b>II</b> Trop.<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>A</b> In gen., to [[flow]], [[spring]], [[arise]], [[come]] [[forth]]; to go, [[proceed]]: ex ejus (Nestoris) [[lingua]] melle dulcior fluebat [[oratio]], Cic. de Sen. 10, 31: [[carmen]] [[vena]] pauperiore fluit, Ov. Pont. 4, 2, 20: Calidii [[oratio]] ita [[libere]] fluebat, ut [[nusquam]] adhaeresceret, Cic. Brut. 79, 274: in Herodoto omnia [[leniter]] fluunt, Quint. 9, 4, 18; cf. also: [[grammatice]] pleno jam [[satis]] alveo fluit, id. 2, 1, 4: quae totis viribus fluit [[oratio]], id. 9, 4, 7: [[oratio]] ferri debet ac fluere, id. 9, 4, 112.—Transf., of the [[writer]] [[himself]]: [[alter]] ([[Herodotus]]) [[sine]] ullis salebris [[quasi]] [[sedatus]] [[amnis]] fluit, Cic. Or. 12, 39; cf.: ([[Lucilius]]) cum flueret [[lutulentus]], Hor. S. 1, 4, 11; 1, 10, 50; 1, 7, 28: facetiis, Plaut. Mil. 4, 8, 12: [[multa]] ab ea ([[luna]]) manant et fluunt, quibus animantes alantur augescantque, Cic. N. D. 2, 19, 50: haec omnia ex [[eodem]] fonte fluxerunt, id. ib. 3, 19, 48: dicendi facultatem ex intimis sapientiae fontibus fluere, Quint. 12, 2, 6; 5, 10, 19; 5, 9, 14: omnia ex [[natura]] rerum hominumque fluere, id. 6, 2, 13: [[nomen]] ex Graeco fluxisse, id. 3, 4, 12: ab [[isto]] capite fluere [[necesse]] est omnem rationem bonorum et malorum, Cic. Fin. 2, 11, 34; Quint. 1, 1, 12: [[unde]] id [[quoque]] [[vitium]] fluit, id. 11, 3, 109; 7, 3, 33: Pythagorae [[doctrina]] cum [[longe]] lateque flueret, [[spread]] itself, Cic. Tusc. 4, 1, 2: [[multum]] fluxisse [[video]] de libris nostris variumque sermonem, id. N. D. 1, 3, 6: sic mihi tarda fluunt ingrataque tempora, [[flow]], [[pass]], Hor. Ep. 1, 1, 23: in rebus prosperis et ad voluntatem nostram fluentibus, [[going]], Cic. Off. 1, 26, 90: rebus [[supra]] [[votum]] fluentibus, Sall. H. Fragm. ap. Serv. Verg. A. 2, 169 (Hist. 1, 101 Dietsch); Tac. H. 3, 48; Just. 23, 3; cf.: rebus [[prospere]] fluentibus, [[succeeding]], [[prospering]], Tac. Or. 5; id. A. 15, 5: illius rationes [[quorsum]] fluant, [[proceed]], Attic. ap. Cic. Att. 9, 10, 4; cf.: res fluit ad [[interregnum]], Cic. Att. 4, 16, 11; cuncta in Mithridatem fluxere, Tac. A. 11, 9.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>B</b> In partic.<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>1</b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Of [[speech]], etc., to [[flow]] [[uniformly]], be [[monotonous]]: efficiendum est ne fluat [[oratio]], ne vagetur, etc., Cic. de Or. 3, 49, 190: [[quod]] [[species]] ipsa carminum docet, non impetu et instinctu nec [[ore]] uno [[fluens]], Tac. A. 14, 16; cf. Cic. Brut. 79.—Pregn., to [[dissolve]], [[vanish]], [[perish]]: [[qua]] (voluptate) cum liquescimus fluimusque [[mollitia]], Cic. Tusc. 2, 22, 52: [[fluens]] mollitiis, Vell. 1, 6, 2; 2, 88, 2: [[cetera]] nasci, occidere, fluere, labi, nec [[diutius]] esse uno et [[eodem]] statu, Cic. Or. 3, 10: fluit [[voluptas]] corporis et prima quaeque avolat, id. Fin. 2, 32, 106: fluentem procumbentemque rem publicam populi Romani restituere, Vell. 2, 16 fin.—Hence,<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>1</b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; [[fluens]], entis, P. a.<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>A</b> Lax, relaxed, debauched, enervated, [[effeminate]]: [[inde]] soluti ac fluentes non accipiunt e scholis [[mala]] ista, sed in scholas afferunt, Quint. 1, 2, 8: Campani fluentes luxu, Liv. 7, 29, 5: incessu ipso [[ultra]] muliebrem mollitiem fluentes, Sen. Tranq. 15: fluentibus membris, incessu femineo, Aug. Civ. D. 7, 26.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>B</b> Of [[speech]],<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>1</b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Flowing, [[fluent]]: sed in his [[tracta]] quaedam et [[fluens]] expetitur, non haec contorta et acris [[oratio]], Cic. Or. 20, 66: [[lenis]] et [[fluens]] [[contextus]], Quint. 9, 4, 127.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>2</b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Lax, [[unrestrained]]: ne immoderata aut angusta aut dissoluta aut [[fluens]] [[sit]] [[oratio]], Cic. Or. 58, 198: dissipata et inculta et [[fluens]] [[oratio]], id. ib. 65, 220; and transf. of the [[speaker]]: in locis ac descriptionibus fusi ac fluentes sumus, Quint. 9, 4, 138.—Adv.: flŭenter, in a [[flowing]], [[waving]] [[manner]] ([[very]] [[rare]]): res quaeque [[fluenter]] fertur, Lucr. 6, 935 ([[but]] not ib. 520, [[where]] the [[correct]] [[read]]. is cientur; v. Lachm.): capillo [[fluenter]] undante, App. M. 2, p. 122, 7. —<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>2</b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; [[fluxus]], a, um, P. a. ([[mostly]] [[poet]]. and in [[post]]-Aug. [[prose]]).<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>A</b> Lit., [[flowing]], [[fluid]]: elementa arida [[atque]] fluxa, App. de Mundo: [[sucus]], Plin. 9, 38, 62, § 133: vas fluxum pertusumque, i. e. leaking, Lucr. 6, 20.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>2</b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Transf., [[flowing]], [[loose]], [[slack]]: ipsa crine fluxo thyrsum quatiens, Tac. A. 11, 31: [[habena]], Liv. 38, 29, 6: [[amictus]], Luc. 2, 362; cf.: ut cingeretur fluxiore [[cinctura]], Suet. Caes. 45 fin.: fluxa [[arma]], [[hanging]] [[slack]], [[loose]], Tac. H. 2, 99.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>(b)</b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Pregn., [[frail]], [[perishable]], [[weak]]: corpora, Tac. H. 2, 32; cf.: spadone eviratior fluxo, Mart. 5, 41, 1: (murorum) aevo fluxa, Tac. H. 2, 22. —<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>B</b> Trop.<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>1</b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Lax, [[loose]], [[dissolute]], [[careless]]: animi molles et aetate fluxi dolis [[haud]] [[difficulter]] capiebantur, Sall. C. 14, 5: cf.: animi fluxioris esse, Suet. Tib. 52: duces [[noctu]] dieque fluxi, Tac. H. 3, 76: [[spectaculum]] non enerve nec fluxum, Plin. [[Pan]]. 33, 1: fluxa [[atque]] aperta [[securitas]], Gell. 4, 20, 8.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>2</b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Pregn., [[frail]], [[weak]], fleeting, [[transient]], [[perishable]]: res nostrae ut in secundis fluxae, ut in adversis bonae, decayed, impaired, [[disordered]], Cic. Att. 4, 2, 1: hujus belli [[fortuna]], ut in secundis, fluxa; ut in adversis, bona, id. ad Brut. 1, 10, 2: res humanae fluxae et mobiles, Sall. J. 104, 2: divitiarum et formae [[gloria]] fluxa [[atque]] [[fragilis]] est, id. C. 1, 4; cf.: instabile et fluxum, Tac. A. 13, 19: fluxa [[auctoritas]], id. H. 1, 21: [[cave]] fidem fluxam geras, Plaut. Capt. 2, 3, 79: [[fides]], Sall. J. 111, 2; Liv. 40, 50, 5; cf.: fluxa et vana [[fides]], unreliable, [[unstable]], id. 28, 6, 11; Tac. H. 2, 75; 4, 23: studia inania et fluxa, id. A. 3, 50 fin.: fluxa [[senio]] [[mens]], id. ib. 6, 38.—Adv.: fluxē, [[remissly]], [[negligently]] ([[post]]-[[class]]. and [[rare]]): [[more]] vitae remissioris fluxius [[agens]], Amm. 18, 7.
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