flustra

flustra, ōrum, n. [fluo],

• the usual quiet state of the sea, a calm (ante- and postclass.): flustra, motus maris sine tempestate fluctuantis. Naevius in bello Poenico quod ait: honorariae honestae stabant in flustris, ut si diceret in salo, Suet. Fragm. p. 425 ed. Bip. (reprinted ap. Müll. Fest. pp. 89, 382); cf.: flustra dicuntur, cum in mari fluctus non moventur, quam Graeci μαλακίαν vocant, Paul. ex Fest. p. 89 Müll.: mare de nustris temperatum, Tert. de Pall. 2.

flustra, ōrum, n. (fluo), die Meeresstille, Naev. b. Pun. fr. 62 V. (bei Isid. de nat. rer. 44). Tert. de pall. 2; vgl. Suet. fr. 157. p. 243, 5 R. Paul. ex Fest. 89, 6.

flustra [CLn. pl.] , quiet state of the sea, (poet.) quiet waters. Pharaonis exercitu rubri maris gurgitibus summerso et profundis pelagi ~is suffocato Aldh. VirgP 12; ~a, unda GlC F 212; donec ad optatae pertingas flustra Musellae Alcuin Carm. 4. 21; ~a, i. unda, yþ, œdwella GlH F 543; waw of the see, or othir water, ~um, fluctus PP.

flustra, ōrum, n. , calme [de la mer] : Tert. Pall. 2 ; P. Fest. 89, 6.