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|lshtext=<b>plŭo</b>: plui (or plūvi in Plaut. and Liv.; cf. Prisc. p. 881 P.; Varr. L. L. 9, § 104 Müll.), 3, v. n., usu.<br /><b>I</b> impers. ([[ante]]-[[class]]. and [[late]] Lat. also pers.;<br /> v. [[infra]]) [[root]] plu-, to [[swim]]; Gr. [[πλύνω]], to [[wash]]; cf.: [[πλέω]], πλεύσω, to [[sail]]; cf. [[ploro]], to [[rain]]; constr. absol., or [[with]] abl. or acc.<br /><b>I</b> Lit.: pluet [[credo]] [[hercle]] [[hodie]], Plaut. Curc. 1, 2, 42: ut [[multum]] pluverat, id. Men. prol. 63: has [[Graeci]] stellas Hyadas vocitare suerunt, a pluendo: ὕειν [[enim]] est pluere, Cic. N. D. 2, 43, 111: [[aqua]], quae pluendo crevisset, by the [[rain]], id. Top. 9, 38: quoties [[pluit]], Juv. 7, 179: [[urceatim]] plovebat (vulg. for pluebat), Petr. 44, 18.—With acc.: sanguinem pluisse senatui nuntiatum est, Cic. Div. 2, 27, 58 (Klotz, sanguinem): lapides, Liv. 28, 27, 16: terram, id. 10, 33, 8; Vulg. Exod. 9, 23; 16, 4; id. Psa. 10, 7.—With abl.: [[lacte]] pluisse, rained [[milk]], Liv. 27, 11: lapidibus, id. 35, 9; 21, 62, 5: [[lacte]], [[sanguine]], carne, Plin. 2, 56, 57, § 147.—Pass.: quā pluitur et ningitur, App. Flor. p. 340, 39.—Personally: saxis ferunt pluisse [[caelum]], Mart. Cap. 6, § 642: [[effigies]] quae [[pluit]], [[which]] rained, came [[down]] in [[rain]], Plin. 2, 55, 57, § 147. —<br /><b>II</b> Transf., of [[other]] things, to [[rain]] ([[poet]].): nec de concussā [[tantum]] [[pluit]] ilice glandis, Verg. G. 4, 81: stridentia fundae saxa pluunt, Stat. Th. 8, 416: jam [[bellaria]] [[adorea]] pluebant, id. S. 1, 6, 10.