FLOWING Copy link • FLOWING 1. (A) PROPR., fluens: manans [SYN. in To FLOW]: perennis: jugis (always flowing; of water, of a well, brook, etc.). Flowing water, flumen vivum. (B) FIG., Of speech, fluens [Vid: observation at the end of this article]: profluens: volubilis (rolling fast, voluble; of a speaker, and the speech, especially when the speech consists entirely of short sentences; Vid: Cic., Brut., 28, 108; Or., 56, 187, where oratio stabilis is opposed to it). The easy and flowing speech of the orator, expedita et perfacile currens oratio (Cic., Brut., 63, 227); tractus orationis lenis et aequabilis (Cic., De Or., 2, 13, 54); also, verborum expedita ac profluens quodammodo celeritas (Cic., Brut., 61, 220): a flowing style of writing, genus orationis profluens; *genus dicendi sponte sua fusum; *oratio leniter profluens: flowing verses. versus fluentes; versus sponte sua ad numeros aptos venientes (Ov., Trist., 4, 10, 25): to be written in flowing elegiac verses, scriptum elegis esse fluentibus (Plin., Ep., 5, 17, 2); in a flowing manner, facile; commode: ☞ dissoluta aut fluens oratio, dissipata et fluens oratio, are expressions of blame, denoting a want of nerve, vigor, conciseness, etc. Flowing; of garments, fluens (e.g., veste fluente; tunicis fluentibus): fluitans (vestis, Tac.; amictus, Catullus). 2. s. Vid. FLOOD, FLOW.