Affundo, affundis, affúdi, pen, prod affuium. pen. prod. affundere. Plin. To shedde, cast, or sprinkle liquour on a thing: to fiow or runne by: sometime to poure in. Affunditur hunc æstuarium è mari. Plin. Runneth or floweth by it out of the sea.Affusa vrbs mari pro Affusum mare vrbi. Plin. Running by. Erigida in aqua affunditur venenum.Tacit.Is mixed or tempered with it.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
af-fundo (better adf-), ūdi, ūsum, 3, v. a.I.To pour to, upon, or into, to sprinkle or scatter on (poet. and in post-Aug. prose). A.Lit.: adfusa eis aqua calida, Plin. 12, 21, 46, 102: adfuso vino, id. 28, 9, 38, 144; cf. id. 16, 44, 91, 242: Rhenum Oceano, Tac. H. 5, 23: adfundere alicui venenum in aquā frigidā, id. A. 13, 16.—Hence: amnis adfusus oppidis,
that flows by
, Plin. 5, 29, 31; and: oppidum adfusum amne,
washed by a river
, id. 3, 3, 4, 24.—B.Trop., to add to, to send or despatch to some place in haste: equorum tria milia cornibus adfunderentur, Tac. Agr. 35: adfundere vitam alicui,
to give life
,
vitality
,
to
, id. A. 6, 28.—II. Adfundere se or adfundi, poet., to cast one's self to the ground: adfusa (stretched out, prostrate) poscere vitam, Ov. M. 9, 605: adfusaeque jacent tumulo,