The corpus record — Latin

perflo

perflo · v. a

to blow through

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Where it lives

Remedia Amoris 1 · 1.91/10k
Res Rustica, Books I-IX 6 · 0.76/10k
Punica 4 · 0.52/10k
De Medicina 5 · 0.49/10k
De Republica 1 · 0.46/10k
De Rerum Natura 2 · 0.41/10k
Pharsalia 2 · 0.39/10k
De Architectura 2 · 0.35/10k
Naturalis Historia 7 · 0.18/10k
Aeneid 1 · 0.16/10k
Res Gestae 1 · 0.08/10k
Ad Lucilium Epistulae Morales 1 · 0.08/10k

What it meant

per-flo — Lewis & Short

per-flo, āvi, ātum, 1, v. a. and n.,

I to blow through or over (not in Cæs.).

I Act.: cum venti nubila perflant, Lucr. 6, 132; cf. id. 6, 136, and Ov. R. Am. 369: unde (nubilarium) commodissime perflari possit, Varr. R. R. 1, 13: venti terras turbine perflant, Verg. A. 1, 83: colles, qui cum perflantur ipsi, tum adferunt umbram vallibus, Cic. Rep. 2, 6, 11: granaria perflari undique malunt, Plin. 18, 30, 73, § 302: murmura conchā, to sound by blowing through, Luc. 9, 348: perflata est terra austro, Vulg. Job, 37, 17.—

II Neutr., to blow through, to blow, Col. 2, 21, 5: perflantibus undique procellis, Plin. 2, 107, 111, § 240.

Where it came from

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