mantle (v.) Copy link • mantle (v.): i. e. to overspread: perh. suffundo, fūdi, fūsum, 3: cf. Virg. G. 1, 430, si (Luna) virgineum suffuderit ore ruborem, "if she m. her face with maidenly red:" so pass. refl., suffundi ora (acc. of closer defin.) rubore, Ov. M. 1, 484.