(v. n.P. a.adv.) : prō-flŭo, xi, xum, 3, v. n.
* To flow forth or along (class.).
* Lit.: Mosa profluit ex monte Vogeso,Caes. B. G. 4, 10: si lacrimae ab oculis et pituita a naribus profluent,Col. 6, 7, 11: umor profluit,Verg. G. 4, 25: sanguis profluens, Enn. ap. Cic. Tusc. 2, 16, 38: sudor,Just. 15, 4, 17: per fossas,Plin. 33, 4, 21, § 76: ad mare,Cic. Div. 1, 44, 100.
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* Trop., to flow forth, issue, proceed (class.): quae ab hoc fonte profluant,Varr. L. L. 8, § 62 Müll.: cujus ore sermo melle dulcior profluebat,Auct. Her. 4, 33, 44: equidem ab his fontibus profluxi ad hominum famam,Cic. Cael. 3, 6: ad incognitas artes, to proceed to, to fall or hit upon, Tac. A. 11, 26.— Hence, prōflŭens, entis, P. a., flowing along (class.).
* To be relaxed: videndum est an adstrictum corpus sit, an profluat,Cels. 3, 6: si venter profluit,id. 3, 6.
* Lit.: aqua profluens,Cic. Q. Fr. 3, 1, 2.
* Subst.: prōflŭens, entis, f. (sc. aqua), running water (class.): in profluentem deferri,Cic. Inv. 2, 50, 149; cf. Auct. Her. 1, 13, 23; Flor. 1, 1, 2; 4, 12, 9.
* Trop., of speech, flowing, fluent: genus sermonis affert non liquidum, non fusum ac profluens, sed exile, aridum, concisum,Cic. de Or. 2, 38, 159: profluens et perennis loquacitas,id. ib. 3, 48, 185: profluens atque expedita celeritas,id. Brut. 61, 220: profluens quiddam habuit Carbo et canorum,id. de Or. 3, 7, 28: eloquentia,Tac. A. 13, 3.—Sup.: manuum suarum profluentissima largitas,Arn. in Psa. 104.— Hence, adv.: prōflŭenter, flowingly; trop., easily (class.): ergo omnia profluenter, absolute, prospere,Cic. Tusc. 5, 18, 53. —Comp., of speech, more fluently (postclass.): profluentius exsequi,Gell. 14, 1, 32.

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