The corpus record — Latin

perfluo

perfluo · v. a

to flow

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Fabulae Aesopiae 1 · 0.91/10k
Elegiae 1 · 0.81/10k
Metamorphoses 3 · 0.56/10k
De Rerum Natura 2 · 0.41/10k
Historiae 1 · 0.19/10k
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Naturalis Historia 1 · 0.03/10k

What it meant

per-flŭo — Lewis & Short

per-flŭo, xi, 3, v. a. and n.

I Act., to flow or run through (post-class.): pluvialibus nimbis perfluuntur, Arn. 6, 191.—

II Neutr.

A Lit.

1 To flow or run through (poet. and in post-Aug. prose): per colum vina videmus Perfluere, Lucr. 2, 392; Petr. 23.—

2 In gen., to flow: quasi in vas commoda perfluere, Lucr. 3, 937: Belus amnis in mare perfluens, Plin. 36, 26, 65, § 190.—

b To drip with any thing (postclass.): sudore perfluere, App. M. 1, p. 108, 1.—

c Of long garments, to flow or float (post-class.), App. M. 11, p. 258, 30.—*

B Trop.: plenus rimarum sum: hac atque illac perfluo, I leak, i. e. I cannot keep the secret, Ter. Eun. 1, 2, 25.

Where it came from

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