Proluo, próluis, prólui, prolûtum, pe. pro. prolúere. Ex pro & lauo compositum. Plaut.To wash much or long: to drown: to surround.Impetus aquarum proluit terram. Colum. Pruinosa herba pecudi ventrem proluit. Colum. The dewie grasse maketh the beasts haue the flixe, or washeth them.Labra prolui fonte. Pers. Cruor saucia proluit pectora.Stat.The bloude wetteth, imbrueth or berayeth the wounded breast.Præcordia melius prolueris leni mulso. Hor. Thou shalte d better to drinke, & moiste thy bowels with good wine.Eridanus proluit lyluas insano vortice.Virg.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
prō-lŭo, lŭi, lūtum, 3, v. a., to wash forth or out, to cast out (mostly poet. and in postAug. prose; not found in Cic.; once in Cæs.; v. infra). I.Lit.: genus omne natantum Litore in extremo ... fluctus Proluit, Verg. G. 3, 543; ventrem, i. e.
to cause diarrhœa
, Col. 7, 3, 25.—II.Transf.A.To wash off or away: tempestas ex omnibus montibus nives proluit, Caes. B. C. 1, 48: impetus aquarum proluit terram, Col. 2, 18, 5; cf.: silvas Eridanus, Verg. G. 1, 481; id. A. 12, 686.—Hence, 2.Trop., to make away with property: pecuniam prandiorum gurgitibus,
to squander
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dissipate
, Gell. 2, 24, 11.—B.To moisten, wet, wash: in vivo prolue rore manus, Ov. F. 4, 778: ensem, i. e.
with blood
, Sil. 15, 304: cruor proluit pectora, Stat. Th. 8, 711.—Poet., of drinking: leni praecordia mulso Prolueris melius, Hor. S. 2, 4, 26: se pleno auro, Verg. A. 1, 739; multā prolutus vappā, Hor. S. 1, 5, 16: nec fonte labra prolui caballino, Pers. prol. 1.—In comic lang.: cloacam (i. e. ventrem), to wash out the stomach, i. e. to drink one's fill, Plaut. Curc. 1, 2, 29.—C.To overflow, inundate (postclass.): prolutas esse regiones imbribus, App. de Mundo, p. 73, 26.