rain (v.) Copy link Outline I. Lit.II. Fig. • rain (v.): I. Lit.: pluo, plui or plūvi, 3 (usu. impers.): it r.s, pluit, Cic.: it will r. to-day, pluet hodie, Plaut. Curc. 1, 2, 42: it r.s hard, multum pluit, id. Men. prol. 63: it r.s blood, pluit sanguinem, Cic. Div. 2, 27, 58 (in this phrase either acc. or abl. is used): it r.s milk, pluit lacte, Liv. 27, 11: it r.s stones, p. lapidibus, id. 35, 9. Or expr. by pluvia, imber: v. examples under rain (subs.). Phr.: it r.'d all night, imber continens per noctem totam tenuit, Liv. 23, 44. II. Fig.: to fall or pour down like rain: pluo: from the shaken holm-oak the acorn r.s down, de concussa pluit ilice glans, Virg. G. 4, 81. Strengthened, perpluo, 3: the storm, which love has r.'d into my breast, tempestas, quam mihi amor in pectus perpluit meum, Plaut. Most. 1, 3, 6.