defluxerant
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;
pl. pluperf. act. ind. 3rd
Examples
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Liber III
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from QUAESTIONES NATURALES
"...ipso latentesque uenae sunt: itaque etiam cum hiberni defluxere torrentes, faciem suam seruat. [4,1] Primum ergo quaeramus..." - P
Metamorphoses VI
Publius Ovidius Naso (Ovid) from Metamorphoses
"...Hecateidos herbae sparsit: et extemplo tristi medicamine tactae defluxere comae, cum quis et naris et aures, fitque caput..." - G
Epistola ad Caesarem II
Gaius Sallustius Crispus (Sallust) from SPURIA
"...condonare, neque te civibus, sicut hostibus, uti vident, defluxere: pauci restitere; quibus maius otium in castris, quam Romae..."