diffluit
Dictionary entries
- Entry →diffluo, diffluere, diffluxi, diffluctus:
Verb · 3rd conjugation · Intransitive
- Frequency:
- Frequent
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
flow away; waste/wear/melt away; dissolve/disappear; pass out; ramble (speaker);
sg. pres. act. ind. 3rd
Examples
Heauton Timorumenos
Publius Terentius Afer (Terence)
"...eius animum, qui nunc luxuria et lascivia diffluit, retundam redigam, ut quo se vortat nesciat. ME. quid..."Liber I
Titus Lucretius Carus (Lucretius) from DE RERVM NATVRA LIBRI SEX
"...quaeque. nam vel uti privata cibo natura animantum diffluit amittens corpus, sic omnia debent dissolui simul ac defecit..."de Brevitate Vitae
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from DIALOGI
"...bene collocaretur; sed ubi per luxum ac neglegentiam diffluit, ubi nulli bonae rei impenditur, ultima demum necessitate cogente..."Liber IV
Gaius Julius Caesar from COMMENTARIORUM LIBRI VII DE BELLO GALLICOCUM A. HIRTI SUPPLEMENTO
"...citatus fertur et, ubi Oceano adpropinquavit, in plures diffluit partes multis ingentibus insulis effectis, quarum pars magna..."