STREAM Copy link • STREAM 1. s. PROP., flumen (the proper word): cursus (the flowing of a river): amnis (large stream or river): torrens (mountain-torrent). To flow with a rapid stream, rapido cursu ferri: with the stream, secundo flumine (not fluvio); secunda aqua; secundum naturam fluminis: to swim or flow with the stream, secundo flumine or secunda aqua deferri: proverbially, numquam dirigere brachia contra torrentem (Juvenal): against the stream, adverso flumine; contra aquam: to stream against the stream, contra aquam remigrare (Sen., Ep., 122, extr.); adversum flumen subire (Curt., both PROP.: ☞ not fluminibus se obvium ferre; the true reading in Caes., Rep., 1, 4, 7, is fulminibus). Figuratively, Stream of time, cursus temporis: (of a speech, etc.) flumen (e.g., velut flumen quoddam eloquentiae); vis (great abundance; general term). 2. v. fluere (flow, general term): ferri (to be borne rapidly; of rivers; ☞ Hirt., B.G., 8, 40, etc., and of persons in alarm, etc.): se effundere or effundi (to pour out; PROP., of streams discharging themselves into a sea or lake; then also of men, etc.). To stream out of a gate, porta se effundere or effundi.