stream (subs.) Copy link Outline I. Lit.1. flūmen, ĭnis, n. (with special ref. to the current)2. fluentum (poet.)3. rīvus (a small s.)II. Fig. • stream (subs.): I. Lit.: 1. flūmen, ĭnis, n. (with special ref. to the current): a running s., f. vivum, Virg. Aen. 2, 719. (Cocytos) meandering with sluggish s., f. languido errans, Hor. Od. 2, 14, 17: down or up the s., secundo fl., adverso fl., Caes. B. G. 7, 60: v. current. 2. fluentum (poet.): usu. pl.: the hoarse s.s of Cocytus, rauca Cocyti f., Virg. Aen. 6, 327: Lucr. 3. rīvus (a small s.): v. rivulet. For flŭvius, amnis, v. river. II. Fig.: of other things beside water: flūmen: a golden s. of speech, orationis aureum f., Cic. Ac. 2, 38, 119. Phr.: the s. of time, *temporum s. saeculorum cursus (v. course). an uninterrupted s. of people, agmen perpetuum [hominum], Cic. Pis. 22, 51 (perh. we might say, tanquam flumen quoddam hominum: or expr. by multitudo quae se fluminis instar effundit).
stream (v.) Copy link • stream (v.): expr. by se effundere, effundi, etc.: v. to pour, and foll. artt.
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.