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Lewis Short
flŭentum (noun N) : fluo
* A flow, flood; in concr., running water, a stream, river.
* Lit. (poet. and in post-class. prose; usually in plur.): fluenta Lubrica,Lucr. 5, 949: Xanthi,Verg. A. 4, 143: rauca (Cocyti),id. ib. 6, 327: Tiberina,id. ib. 12, 35: cum inter fluenta tibiis fidibusque concineret, i. e. by the Euripus, Flor. 2, 8, 9: Jordanis,Vulg. Num. 13, 30.—In sing., App. de Deo Socr. p. 52; Aus. Mos. 10, 59; Avien. Perieg. 32; Prud. στεφ. 12, 32.—Of milk: tonans (Juppiter) suxit fluenta mammarum,Arn. 4, 141.
* Transf., a stream of fire (cf. fluctus, II. A. 2.): flammarum, App. de Mundo, p. 73 (shortly before, flumina); a stream or current of air, Lucr. 5, 278; al. fluenteis for fluentis.
* A flow, flood; in concr., running water, a stream, river.
* Lit. (poet. and in post-class. prose; usually in plur.): fluenta Lubrica,Lucr. 5, 949: Xanthi,Verg. A. 4, 143: rauca (Cocyti),id. ib. 6, 327: Tiberina,id. ib. 12, 35: cum inter fluenta tibiis fidibusque concineret, i. e. by the Euripus, Flor. 2, 8, 9: Jordanis,Vulg. Num. 13, 30.—In sing., App. de Deo Socr. p. 52; Aus. Mos. 10, 59; Avien. Perieg. 32; Prud. στεφ. 12, 32.—Of milk: tonans (Juppiter) suxit fluenta mammarum,Arn. 4, 141.
* Transf., a stream of fire (cf. fluctus, II. A. 2.): flammarum, App. de Mundo, p. 73 (shortly before, flumina); a stream or current of air, Lucr. 5, 278; al. fluenteis for fluentis.
Charlton T. Lewis, Charles Short, A Latin Dictionary
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