defluit
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;
sg. pres. act. ind. 3rd
Examples
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Liber VI
Marcus Annaeus Lucanus (Lucan) from DE BELLO CIVILI SIVE PHARSALIA
"...Noto, cum tota cauernasegerit et torrens in campos defluit Aetna, 295Caesaris ut miles glomerato puluere uictusante aciem caeci..." - D
Satura VII
Decimus Iunius Iuvenalis (Juvenal) from SATVRAE
"...tantum laudare disertos, ut pueri Iunonis auem. sed defluit aetas et pelagi patiens et cassidis atque ligonis. taedia..." - L
Liber III
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from QUAESTIONES NATURALES
"...medio, ubi ille cumulus est, defluit. [28,6] Ergo ut solet aestus aequinoctilis sub ipsum lunae solisque coitum..." - L
Liber I
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from QUAESTIONES NATURALES
"...terrena, inter quae oritur et pabulum suum subsequens defluit ideoque uelociter rapitur. [14,6] At quale color diuersus..." 
Liber Primus
Publius Papinius Statius from ACHILLEID
"...caeli Luna iugo, totis ubi somnus inertior alis defluit in terras mutumque amplectitur orbem. consedere chori paulumque exercita..."- P
Aeneid VIII
P. Vergilius Maro (Vergil) from The Aeneid
"...legit; pars cetera prona fertur aqua segnisque secundo defluit amni, nuntia ventura Ascanio rerumque patrisque. dantur equi Teucris..." - P
Liber III
P. Vergilius Maro (Vergil) from The Georgics
"...udisque aries in gurgite uillis mersatur, missusque secundo defluit amni; aut tonsum tristi contingunt corpus amurca et spumas..." - P
Metamorphoses VI
Publius Ovidius Naso (Ovid) from Metamorphoses
"...manu moriente remissis in latus a dextro paulatim defluit armo. proximus audito sonitu per inane pharetrae frena dabat..."