dīlŭvĭes | dīlŭvĭum, ii | dīlŭvĭo, ōnis (noun F.n.f) : f., also , , n., and , , f.diluo, lit., a washing away of the earth; hence
* Transf., an inundation, flood, deluge (in all three forms only poet. and in post-Aug. prose; yet in Seneca, Quaestt. Natt., diluvium stands for the general deluge; v.infra, β).
* Diluvies, Lucr. 5, 255; 6, 292; Hor. C. 3, 29, 40; 4, 14, 28; Plin. 9, 4, 3, § 8.
* Trop.: diluvio ex illo tot vasta per aequora vecti,desolation, destruction,Verg. A. 7, 228 (ex illa vastitate, Serv.), a deluge of invasion, Val. Fl. 6, 394.
* Diluvio, Censor. 18 med.; Tert. Anim. 46.

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