defluens
Dictionary entries
- Entry →defluo, defluere, defluxi, defluxus:
Verb · 3rd conjugation · Intransitive
- Frequency:
- Very Frequent
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
flow/glide/run down; descend/fall; flow/stream away; float/swim/row downstream;; flow/drain/die/melt/slip away, fade/disappear; originate/stem, be derived from;
acc. sg. pres. act. part.nom. sg. pres. act. part.voc. sg. pres. act. part.
Examples
Liber XX
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from EPISTULAE MORALES AD LUCILIUM
"...sese. Hinc intellecta est illa beata uita secundo defluens cursu, arbitrii sui tota. (12) Quomodo ergo hoc ipsum..."Liber VI
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from QUAESTIONES NATURALES
"...uelis potest; sed continenti ammota est: turbidus enim defluens Nilus multumque secum caeni trahens et id subinde apponens..."de Clementia
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from DIALOGI
"...turba per latissima itinera sine intermissione defluens eliditur, quotiens aliquid obstitit, quod cursum eius velut torrentis rapidi moraretur..."SATIRICON LIBER
Gaius Petronius Arbiter (Petronius)
"...circa fictiles inauratos et vinum in conspectu sacco defluens. Tum Trimalchio: "Amici, inquit, hodie servus meus barbatoriam fecit..."Liber V
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...occursum est, qua flumen Allia, Crustuminis montibus praealto defluens alueo, haud multum infra viam Tiberino amni miscetur..."FRAGMENTA HISTORIARUM
Gaius Sallustius Crispus (Sallust)
"...passuum duorum. Nisi qua flumen Clurda Tauro monte defluens. Genus hominum vagum et rapinis suetum magis quam agrorum..."