(v. n.P. a.P. a.) : flŭo, xi, xum, 3 (archaic form of the
* Sup.: FLUCTUM, acc. to Prisc. p. 817 P.; cf.: fluo, fluctum, Not. Tir. From this form are derived fluctio and fluctus. In Lucr. 6, 800, the correct read. is laveris, not flueris, v. Lachm. ad h. l.), v. n. Gr. φλυ-, φλῦσαι, ἀναφλύω, etc.; Lat. fleo, fletus; flumen, fluctus, etc.; orig. one root with fla-, to blow, q. v. and cf. Georg Curtius Gr. Etym. p. 302, to flow (cf.: mano, labor, etc.).
* Lit.: per amoenam urbem leni fluit agmine flumen, Enn. ap. Macr. S. 6, 4 (Ann. v. 177 ed. Vahl.); cf.: ut flumina in contrarias partes fluxerint,Cic. Div. 1, 35, 78: flumen quod inter eum et Domitii castra fluebat,Caes. B. C. 3, 37, 1; cf. also: aurea tum dicat per terras flumina vulgo Fluxisse,Lucr. 5, 911: fluvius Eurotas, qui propter Lacedaemonem fluit,Cic. Inv. 2, 31, 96: Helvetiorum inter fines et Allobrogum Rhodanus fluit,Caes. B. G. 1, 6, 2: Arar in utram partem fluat,id. ib. 1, 12, 1: ea, quae natura fluerent atque manarent, ut aqua,Cic. N. D. 1, 15, 39: fluens unda, water from a stream (opp.: putealis unda, spring-water), Col. 1, 5, 1: in foveam,Lucr. 2, 475; cf. id. 5, 271: fluxit in terram Remi cruor,Hor. Epod. 7, 19; cf. Luc. 6, 61: imber,Ov. P. 4, 4, 2: sanguis,id. M. 12, 312: fluit de corpore sudor,id. ib. 9, 173; cf.: sudor fluit undique rivis,Verg. A. 5, 200: aes rivis,id. ib. 8, 445: nudo sub pede musta fluunt,Ov. R. Am. 190: madidis fluit unda capillis,drips,id. M. 11, 656: cerebrum molle fluit,id. ib. 12, 435: fluunt lacrimae more perennis aquae,id. F. 2, 820: fluens nausea,Hor. Epod. 9, 35; cf.: alvus fluens,Cels. 2, 6: fluit ignibus aurum,becomes fluid, melts,Ov. M. 2, 251.
* Transf.
* Trop.
* To move in the manner of fluids, to flow, stream, pour: inde alium (aëra) supra fluere,to flow,Lucr. 5, 514 and 522: unde fluens volvat varius se fluctus odorum,id. 4, 675 sq.; cf.: principio omnibus a rebus, quascumque videmus, Perpetuo fluere ac mitti spargique necesse est Corpora, quae feriant oculos visumque lacessant: Perpetuoque fluunt certis ab rebus odores, Frigus ut a fluviis, calor a sole, aestus ab undis Aequoris,id. 6, 922 sq.: aestus e lapide,id. 6, 1002: venti,id. 1, 280: fluit undique victor Mulciber,Sil. 17, 102: comae per levia colla fluentes,flowing, spreading,Prop. 2, 3, 13; cf.: blanditiaeque fluant per mea colla rosae,id. 4 (5), 6, 72: vestis fluens,flowing, loose,id. 3, 17 (4, 16), 32: tunicisque fluentibus,Ov. A. A. 3, 301: nodoque sinus collecta fluentes,Verg. A. 1, 320; cf. also: balteus nec strangulet nec fluat,Quint. 11, 3, 140: nec mersa est pelago, nec fluit ulla ratis,floats, is tossed about,Mart. 4, 66, 14: ramos compesce fluentes,floating around, spreading out,Verg. G. 2, 370: ad terram fluit devexo pondere cervix,droops,id. ib. 3, 524: omnisque relictis Turba fluit castris,pour forth,id. A. 12, 444: olli fluunt ad regia tecta,id. ib. 11, 236; so of a multitude or crowd of men: densatis ordinibus effuse fluentem in se aciem excepere,Curt. 6, 1, 6.
* Pregn., of bodies, to pass away, fall away, to fall off or out, to vanish: excident gladii, fluent arma de manibus,Cic. Phil. 12, 3, 8: capilli fluunt,Cels. 6, 1; Plin. 27, 4, 5, § 17: sponte fluent (poma) matura suā,Ov. Am. 2, 14, 25: quasi longinquo fluere omnia cernimus aevo,Lucr. 2, 69; cf.: cuncta fluunt omnisque vagans formatur imago,Ov. M. 15, 178: dissolvuntur enim tum demum membra fluuntque, Lucr. 4, 919: surae fluxere,Luc. 9, 770: buccae fluentes,fallen in, lank,Cic. de Or. 2, 66, 266.
* In gen., to flow, spring, arise, come forth; to go, proceed: ex ejus (Nestoris) lingua melle dulcior fluebat oratio,Cic. de Sen. 10, 31: carmen vena pauperiore fluit,Ov. Pont. 4, 2, 20: Calidii oratio ita libere fluebat, ut nusquam adhaeresceret,Cic. Brut. 79, 274: in Herodoto omnia leniter fluunt,Quint. 9, 4, 18; cf. also: grammatice pleno jam satis alveo fluit,id. 2, 1, 4: quae totis viribus fluit oratio,id. 9, 4, 7: oratio ferri debet ac fluere,id. 9, 4, 112.—Transf., of the writer himself: alter (Herodotus) sine ullis salebris quasi sedatus amnis fluit,Cic. Or. 12, 39; cf.: (Lucilius) cum flueret lutulentus,Hor. S. 1, 4, 11; 1, 10, 50; 1, 7, 28: facetiis,Plaut. Mil. 4, 8, 12: multa ab ea (luna) manant et fluunt, quibus animantes alantur augescantque,Cic. N. D. 2, 19, 50: haec omnia ex eodem fonte fluxerunt,id. ib. 3, 19, 48: dicendi facultatem ex intimis sapientiae fontibus fluere,Quint. 12, 2, 6; 5, 10, 19; 5, 9, 14: omnia ex natura rerum hominumque fluere,id. 6, 2, 13: nomen ex Graeco fluxisse,id. 3, 4, 12: ab isto capite fluere necesse est omnem rationem bonorum et malorum,Cic. Fin. 2, 11, 34; Quint. 1, 1, 12: unde id quoque vitium fluit,id. 11, 3, 109; 7, 3, 33: Pythagorae doctrina cum longe lateque flueret,spread itself,Cic. Tusc. 4, 1, 2: multum fluxisse video de libris nostris variumque sermonem,id. N. D. 1, 3, 6: sic mihi tarda fluunt ingrataque tempora,flow, pass,Hor. Ep. 1, 1, 23: in rebus prosperis et ad voluntatem nostram fluentibus,going,Cic. Off. 1, 26, 90: rebus supra votum fluentibus, Sall. H. Fragm. ap. Serv. Verg. A. 2, 169 (Hist. 1, 101 Dietsch); Tac. H. 3, 48; Just. 23, 3; cf.: rebus prospere fluentibus,succeeding, prospering,Tac. Or. 5; id. A. 15, 5: illius rationes quorsum fluant, proceed, Attic. ap. Cic. Att. 9, 10, 4; cf.: res fluit ad interregnum,Cic. Att. 4, 16, 11; cuncta in Mithridatem fluxere,Tac. A. 11, 9.
* In partic.
* Of speech, etc., to flow uniformly, be monotonous: efficiendum est ne fluat oratio, ne vagetur, etc.,Cic. de Or. 3, 49, 190: quod species ipsa carminum docet, non impetu et instinctu nec ore uno fluens,Tac. A. 14, 16; cf. Cic. Brut. 79.—Pregn., to dissolve, vanish, perish: qua (voluptate) cum liquescimus fluimusque mollitia,Cic. Tusc. 2, 22, 52: fluens mollitiis,Vell. 1, 6, 2; 2, 88, 2: cetera nasci, occidere, fluere, labi, nec diutius esse uno et eodem statu,Cic. Or. 3, 10: fluit voluptas corporis et prima quaeque avolat,id. Fin. 2, 32, 106: fluentem procumbentemque rem publicam populi Romani restituere,Vell. 2, 16 fin.—Hence
* Lax, relaxed, debauched, enervated, effeminate: inde soluti ac fluentes non accipiunt e scholis mala ista, sed in scholas afferunt,Quint. 1, 2, 8: Campani fluentes luxu,Liv. 7, 29, 5: incessu ipso ultra muliebrem mollitiem fluentes,Sen. Tranq. 15: fluentibus membris, incessu femineo,Aug. Civ. D. 7, 26.
* Of speech
* Flowing, fluent: sed in his tracta quaedam et fluens expetitur, non haec contorta et acris oratio,Cic. Or. 20, 66: lenis et fluens contextus,Quint. 9, 4, 127.
* Lit., flowing, fluid: elementa arida atque fluxa, App. de Mundo: sucus,Plin. 9, 38, 62, § 133: vas fluxum pertusumque,i. e. leaking,Lucr. 6, 20.
* Fluxus, a, um, P. a. (mostly poet. and in post-Aug. prose).
* Trop.
* Pregn., frail, perishable, weak: corpora,Tac. H. 2, 32; cf.: spadone eviratior fluxo,Mart. 5 41, 1, : (murorum) aevo fluxa,Tac. H. 2, 22.
* Lax, loose, dissolute, careless: animi molles et aetate fluxi dolis haud difficulter capiebantur,Sall. C. 14, 5: cf.: animi fluxioris esse,Suet. Tib. 52: duces noctu dieque fluxi,Tac. H. 3, 76: spectaculum non enerve nec fluxum,Plin. Pan. 33, 1: fluxa atque aperta securitas,Gell. 4, 20, 8.
* Pregn., frail, weak, fleeting, transient, perishable: res nostrae ut in secundis fluxae, ut in adversis bonae,decayed, impaired, disordered,Cic. Att. 4, 2, 1: hujus belli fortuna, ut in secundis, fluxa; ut in adversis, bona,id. ad Brut. 1, 10, 2: res humanae fluxae et mobiles,Sall. J. 104, 2: divitiarum et formae gloria fluxa atque fragilis est,id. C. 1, 4; cf.: instabile et fluxum,Tac. A. 13, 19: fluxa auctoritas,id. H. 1, 21: cave fidem fluxam geras,Plaut. Capt. 2, 3, 79: fides,Sall. J. 111, 2; Liv. 40, 50, 5; cf.: fluxa et vana fides,unreliable, unstable,id. 28, 6, 11; Tac. H. 2, 75; 4, 23: studia inania et fluxa,id. A. 3, 50 fin.: fluxa senio mens,id. ib. 6, 38.—Adv.: fluxē, remissly, negligently (post-class. and rare): more vitae remissioris fluxius agens,Amm. 18, 7.

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