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|lshtext=<b>flūmen</b>: ĭnis, n. id.,<br /><b>I</b> a [[flowing]] of [[water]]; and concr., a [[flood]], [[stream]], [[flowing]] or [[running]] [[water]] (syn.: [[fluvius]], [[amnis]], [[rivus]]).<br /><b>I</b> In gen. ([[mostly]] [[poet]].): Romane, aquam Albanam [[cave]] lacu contineri, [[cave]] in [[mare]] manare suo flumine sinas, an old [[prophetic]] [[formula]] ap. Liv. 5, 16, 9: [[rapidus]] montano flumine [[torrens]], Verg. A. 2, 305; cf. Ov. R. Am. 651: visendus [[ater]] flumine languido Cocytos errans, Hor. C. 2, 14, 17: [[inde]] sequemur Ipsius [[amnis]] [[iter]], [[donec]] nos flumine [[certo]] Perferat, Val. Fl. 8, 189: et [[Tiberis]] [[flumen]] [[vomit]] in [[mare]] salsum, Enn. ap. Macr. S. 6, 4 (Ann. v. 453 ed. Vahl.); cf.: teque [[pater]] Tiberine tuo cum flumine sancto, id. ib. 6, 1 (Ann. v. 55 ib.): [[donec]] me flumine [[vivo]] Abluero, in a [[living]], [[running]] [[stream]], Verg. A. 2, 719; cf.: [[quin]] tu [[ante]] [[vivo]] perfunderis flumine? Auct. ap. Liv. 1, 45, 6 (for [[which]]: [[aqua]] viva, Varr. L. L. 5, § 123 Müll.).—In <[[number]] opt="n">plur.</[[number]]>: nymphae venas et flumina fontis Elicuere sui, streams, Ov. M. 14, 788: [[frigida]] Scamandri, Hor. Epod. 13, 14: Symaethia [[circum]] Flumina, Verg. A. 9, 585: limosa potat, Ov. M. 1, 634; cf.: [[Tantalus]] a labris [[sitiens]] fugientia captat Flumina, Hor. S. 1, 1, 69: maritima immittere in piscinas, Varr. R. R. 3, 17, 9.<br /><b>II</b> In partic., a [[river]].<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>A</b> Lit. (the [[predominant]] signif. of the [[word]] [[both]] in [[prose]] and [[poetry]]): [[quod]] 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: [[Scipio]] biduum [[moratus]] ad [[flumen]], [[quod]] [[inter]] eum et Domitii [[castra]] fluebat, Caes. B. C. 3, 37, 1: [[aurea]] flumina, Lucr. 5, 911: habet non [[tantum]] venas aquarum [[terra]], ex quibus corrivatis flumina effici possunt, sed et amnes magnitudinis vastae, etc., Sen. Q. N. 3, 19; cf. Cic. Rep. 2, 5: nec ullum hoc frigidius [[flumen]] attigi, id. Leg. 2, 3, 6: nos flumina arcemus, dirigimus, avertimus, id. N. D. 2, 60, 152: una [[pars]] (Galliae) [[initium]] capit a flumine Rhodano, continetur [[Garumna]] flumine ... attingit [[etiam]] [[flumen]] Rhenum, etc., Caes. B. G. 1, 1, 6 sq.; 1, 2, 7: [[inter]] montem Juram et [[flumen]] Rhodanum, id. ib. 1, 6, 1: [[flumen]] est [[Arar]], [[quod]], etc., id. ib. 1, 12, 1: [[flumen]] [[Dubis]], id. ib. 1, 38, 4: non [[Seres]], non Tanain [[prope]] [[flumen]] orti, Hor. C. 4, 15, 24: Veliternos ad Asturae [[flumen]] [[Maenius]] fudit, Liv. 8, 13, 5 Drak. N. cr.: terrarum [[situs]] et flumina dicere, Hor. Ep. 2, 1, 252: [[secundo]] flumine ad Lutetiam [[iter]] facere coepit, [[with]] the [[stream]], Caes. B. G. 7, 58, 5 (cf. [[secundus]], 2. a.): magnum [[ire]] [[agmen]] [[adverso]] flumine, [[against]] the [[stream]], Caes. B. G. 7, 60, 3; cf. Verg. G. 1, 201; Liv. 24, 40. —Prov.: flumine vicino [[stultus]] sitit, [[like]], starves in the [[midst]] of [[plenty]], Petr. Fragm. p. 899 Burm.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>2</b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Transf., of [[other]] things [[which]] [[flow]] in streams or [[like]] streams, a [[stream]], [[flood]] ([[poet]]. and in [[post]]-Aug. [[prose]]): sanguinis, Lucr. 2, 354; 4, 1029: largoque humectat flumine [[vultum]], [[flood]] of tears, Verg. A. 1, 465: [[laeta]] [[magis]] pressis manabunt flumina mammis, streams of [[milk]], id. G. 3, 310: flumina jam [[lactis]], jam flumina nectaris, Ov. M. 1, 111: [[rigido]] concussae flumine [[nubes]] Exonerabantur, a [[torrent]] of [[rain]], Petr. poët. Sat. 123; cf.: ut picis e [[caelo]] demissum [[flumen]], a [[stream]] of [[pitch]], Lucr. 6, 257: magnesia flumine saxa, in the magnetic [[stream]], id. 6, 1064: effusaeque ruunt inopino flumine turbae, i. e. in a [[vast]] [[stream]], Sil. 12, 185; cf. Verg. A. 11, 236: aëris, a [[current]] of [[air]], App. de Mund. p. 61, 33 Elm. p. 258 Bip.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>B</b> Trop., of [[expression]], a [[flow]], [[fluency]], [[stream]]: orationis flumine reprehensoris convicia diluuntur, Cic. N. D. 2, 7, 20: [[flumen]] orationis aureum, id. Ac. 2, 38, 119: orationis, id. de Or. 2, 15, 62; cf.: [[flumen]] verborum volubili tasque, id. Or. 16, 53: gravissimorum op timorumque verborum, id. de Or. 2, 45, 188: inanium verborum, id. N. D. 2, 1, 1: [[Lysias]] ... [[puro]] fonti [[quam]] magno flumini [[propior]], Quint. 10, 1, 78; 9, 4, 61; cf. id. 10, 1, 61; Petr. 5 fin.—And [[fig]].: [[neque]] concipere [[neque]] edere partum [[mens]] potest, [[nisi]] ingenti flumine litterarum inundata, Petr. 118.