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|lshtext=<b>amnis</b>: is, m. (<br /><b>I</b> fem., Plaut. Merc. 5, 2, 18; Naev. and Att. ap. Non. 191, 33; Varr. R. R. 3, 5, 9; cf. Prisc. pp. 652 and 658 P.; Rudd. I. p. 26, n. 37; Schneid. Gram. 2, 98; abl. [[regularly]] amne; [[but]] freq. amni in the poets, Verg. G. 1, 203; 3, 447; Hor. S. 1, 10, 62; Col. R. R. 10, 136; also in [[prose]], Liv. 21, 5; 21, 27 al.; cf. Prisc. p. 766; Rhem. Pal. 1374 P.; Rudd. I. p. 85, n. 85) [qs. for apnis from Sanscr. ap = [[water]]; n. plur. āpas. Van.; v. [[aqua]], orig., [[any]] [[broad]] and [[deep]]-[[flowing]], [[rapid]] [[water]]; a [[stream]], [[torrent]], [[river]] ([[hence]], esp. in the poets, [[sometimes]] for a [[rapidly]]-[[flowing]] [[stream]] or a [[torrent]] [[rushing]] [[down]] from a [[mountain]] = [[torrens]]; [[sometimes]] for a [[large]] [[river]], opp. [[fluvius]] (a [[common]] [[river]]); [[sometimes]] also for the [[ocean]] as [[flowing]] [[round]] the [[land]]; it [[most]] [[nearly]] corresponds [[with]] [[our]] [[stream]]; in [[prose]] not [[often]] used [[before]] the histt. of the Aug. per.; in Cic. [[only]] in [[Aratus]] and in his [[more]] [[elevated]] [[prose]]; [[never]] in his Epistt.).<br /><b>I</b> Lit.: acervos altā in amni, Att., Trag. Rel. p. 178 Rib.: [[apud]] abundantem antiquam amnem et rapidas undas Inachi, Att. ap. Non. 192, 4 (Trag. Rel. p. 175 Rib.): Sic [[quasi]] [[amnis]] celeris rapit, sed [[tamen]] inflexu flectitur, Naev. Trag. Rel. p. 12 Rib.; Plaut. Poen. 3, 3, 15: molibus incurrit validis cum viribus [[amnis]], Lucr. 1, 288 (v. the [[whole]] [[magnificent]] [[description]], 1, 282- 290): [[Nilus]] [[unicus]] in terris, Aegypti totius [[amnis]], id. 6, 714: ruunt de montibus amnes, Verg. A. 4, 164: amnes magnitudinis vastae, Sen. Q. N. 3, 19.—Also in [[distinction]] from the [[sea]]: cum [[pontus]] et amnes cuncti [[invicem]] commeant, Sen. Q. N. 4, 2.—On the contr. of the [[ocean]], acc. to the Gr. Ὠκεανὸς [[ποταμός]] (Hom. Od. 11, 639): Oceani [[amnis]], the [[ocean]]-[[stream]], Verg. G. 4, 233: quā fluitantibus undis Solis anhelantes abluit [[amnis]] equos, Tib. 2, 5, 60: Nox Mundum caeruleo laverat amne rotas, id. 3, 4, 18 al.—<br /><b>II</b> Transf.<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>A</b> Poet., of the [[constellation]] [[Eridanus]]: Eridanum cernes funestum magnis cum viribus amnem, Cic. Arat. 145 (as a transl. of the Gr. [[λείψανον]] Ἠριδανοῖο, πολυκλαύστου ποταμοῖο, Arat. Phaenom. 360): Scorpios [[exoriens]] cum [[clarus]] fugerit [[amnis]], Germanic. Arat. 648; cf. id. ib. 362. —<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>B</b> Also [[poet]]. and in [[post]]-[[class]]. [[prose]], [[any]] [[thing]] [[flowing]], [[liquid]], Verg. A. 12, 417; 7, 465: [[amnis]] musti, Pall. 11, 14, 18.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>C</b> Of a [[writer]], whose [[eloquence]] is [[thus]] compared to a [[flowing]] [[stream]] (v. [[flumen]], II. B. and [[fluo]], II. 2. B. 1.): [[alter]] ([[Herodotus]]) [[sine]] ullis salebris [[quasi]] [[sedatus]] [[amnis]] (i. e. a [[noiseless]] [[stream]] [[flowing]] on in [[majestic]] [[size]] and [[fulness]]) fluit; [[alter]] ([[Thucydides]]) incitatior fertur, Cic. Or. 12, 39.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>D</b> Like [[flumen]], as abstr., a [[current]], [[stream]]: [[secundo]] amni, [[down]] or [[with]] the [[stream]], Verg. G. 3, 447: [[adverso]] amne, up the [[stream]], Curt. 10, 1 al.