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perfluo

perfluo, to leak

per-flŭo, xi, 3, v. a. and n.
  • Act., to flow or run through (post-class.): pluvialibus nimbis perfluuntur, Arn. 6, 191.—
  • II Neutr.
    • A Lit.
      • 1 To flow or run through (poet. and in post-Aug. prose): per colum vina videmus Perfluere, Lucr. 2, 392; Petr. 23, 5.—
      • 2 In gen., to flow: quasi in vas commoda perfluere, Lucr. 3, 937: Belus amnis in mare perfluens, Plin. 36, 26, 65, § 190.—
        • b To drip with any thing (post-class.): sudore perfluere, Ap. Met. 1, 13, 1.—
        • c Of long garments, to flow or float (post-class.), Ap. Met. 11, 4, 5.—*
    • B Trop.: plenus rimarum sum: hac atque illac perfluo, I leak, i.e. I cannot keep the secret, Ter. Eun. 105.

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