(verb) : in-năto, āvi, ātum, 1
* To swim or float in or upon (poet. and in post-Aug. prose).
* Lit.
* Homines flumini innatant, Plin. 8, 25, 38, § 93: aquis pluma innatans,id. 18, 35, 86, § 360: lactuca innatat acri Post vinum stomacho ( = supernatat, non subsidet),Hor. S. 2, 4, 59; cf.: dulce (vinum) stomacho innatat, austerum facilius concoquitur,Plin. 23, 1, 22, § 38.
* Trop.
* To swim or float into: cum pisciculi parvi in concham hiantem innataverunt,Cic. N. D. 2, 48, 123.
* To flow over, overflow: Nilus fecundus innatat terrae,Plin. 5, 9, 9, § 54; so, innatat campis (Tiberis),Plin. Ep. 8, 17, 2: innatat unda freto dulcis,the fresh water flows into the sea,Ov. P. 4, 10, 63.
* To swim or float among, to be intermingled with: inter hos latent arteriae ... his innatant venae,Plin. 11, 37, 89, § 219.
* Innatans illa verborum facilitas, floating on the surface, superficial, Quint. 10, 7, 28; 7, 1, 44.
* Of the hair, to float or flow: tenui vagus innatat undā Crinis,Val. Fl. 3, 525.

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