diffluo

dif-flŭo, ĕre, v. n., to flow in different directions, to flow away (class.; repeatedly in Lucr.—cf.: laxo, rescindo, solvo).

I.

Lit.:

diffluere humorem cernis,

Lucr. 3, 436; cf.:

ut nos quasi extra ripas diffluentes coerceret,

Cic. Brut. 91 fin.; cf.:

in plures partes (Rhenus),

divides itself, Caes. B. G. 4, 10, 4:

ut ab summo tibi diffluat altus acervus,

Lucr. 3, 198.— Poet., of that from which any thing flows:

duo juvenes, Sudore multo diffluentes,

dripping with perspiration, Phaedr. 4, 25, 23; so,

sudore,

Plin. 21, 13, 44, § 75.—

2.

Transf., to dissolve, melt away, disappear:

privata cibo natura animantum Diffluit amittens corpus,

Lucr. 1, 1038:

juga montium diffluunt,

Sen. Ep. 91, p. 19 Bip.;

so,

to be wasted, Amm. 15, 8, 18.—

II.

Trop., to be dissolved in, abandoned to:

luxuriā et lasciviā,

Ter. Heaut. 5, 1, 72:

luxuriā,

Cic. Off. 1, 30, 106:

luxu et inertia,

Col. 12 prooem. § 9, for which, in luxum, Prud: Symm. 1, 125:

deliciis,

Cic. Lael. 15; cf.:

otio diffluentes,

id. de Or. 3, 32 fin.:

luxu,

id. Tusc. 2, 22, 52; cf.

risu,

App. M. 3, p. 132.—In rhet.:

diffluens ac solutum,

loose, not periodic, Cic. Or. 70; 233; cf.:

verbis humidis et lapsantibus diffluere,

Gell. 1, 15.