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Gallia est omnis dīvīsa in partēs trēs, quārum ūnam incolunt Belgae.

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S&H Smith & Hall (1)
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Digitized by Distributed Proofreaders from William Smith and Theophilus D. Hall, A Copious and Critical English-Latin Dictionary (1871), and generously placed into the public domain.
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• flowing (adj.):
    1. I. Lit. of fluids:
      1. 1. fluens, tis: f. water, f. aqua, Ov.: v. to flow.
      2. 2. fluĭdus: f. gore, f. cruor, Ov.: v. fluid.
      3. 3. (in compounds) refluus (f. back), Ov.: Plin.: praefluus (f. by or past), Plin.: dēfluus (f. down), Stat.: influus (f. in), Paul. Nol.: superfluus (f. over), Plin.: circumfluus (f. round), Ov.: Plin.
    2. II. By anal., of drapery, etc., loose, floating:
      1. 1. fluens: f. tunics, tunicae f., Ov. A. A. 3, 301: Tac.
      2. 2. fluxus: f. locks, f. crinis, Tac. Ann. 11, 31: f. drapery, f. amictus, Lucan.
      3. 3. fūsus: a f. mantle, f. palla, Tib.: f. locks, f. crines, Virg. Aen. 10, 137.
    3. III. Fig., of style; moving freely:
      1. 1. fluens: a sustained, f. style, tracta et f. oratio, Cic. Or. 20, 66: matter written in f. elegiacs, materia f. elegis scripta, Plin. Ep. 5, 17, 2.
      2. 2. fūsus: a f. and sustained style, running on with a kind of uniform smoothness, genus orationis f. atque tractum, et cum lenitate quadam aequabili profluens, Cic. de Or. 2, 15, 64: Aeschines is fuller than Demosthenes, and more f., plenior Demosthene Aeschines, et magis f., Quint. 10, 1, 77; Herodotus is agreeable, f., transparent, dulcis et f. et candidus Herodotus, Quint. 10, 1, 73.
R&A Riddle & Arnold (1)
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J. E. Riddle and T. K. Arnold, A Copious and Critical English-Latin Lexicon. Data retrieved from FergusJPWalsh/riddle-arnold under a CC BY-SA 4.0 license.
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• FLOWING
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  • (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.