FOUNT, FOUNTAIN Copy link • FOUNT, FOUNTAINfons (both the water that issues forth, and the place where it issues): scaturigo (the water, as gushing violently forth): caput (the head of the spring): aqua saliens: aquae salientes (whence the water shoots forth; e.g., an artificial fountain). Opposite there is an (artificial) fountain, contra fons egerit aquam et recipit; nam expulsa in altum in se cadit, junctisque hiatibus et absorbetur et tollitur (Plin., Ep., 5, 6, 37): to take from the fountain, e fonte haurire aliquid. The fountains of the great deep were broken up, flumina tellus largius fundit, aperitque fontes novos (Sen., N.Q., 27; of the flood). figuratively, = Original source, fons (general term): caput: principium (the first beginning). (The words are found in this connection and order.) principium et fons: origo (origin): causa (cause): unde fit aliquid (whence anything exists or takes its source). The fountain of all things, a quo omnium rerum principia ducuntur: the fountain of life, vitae fons (poetic only).