defluxere
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. perf. act. ind. 3rd
Examples
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..."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..."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..."