Alluo, âlluis, állui, allúere. Ex Ad & Lauo, lauis. Cic. Fluuij dicuntur vrbes alluere. To flow nigh to: to wash as the water doth the ground.Alluūtur mari mœnia.Cic.The sea runneth by, or washeth.Flumen Sidenum quo alluitur oppidum Polemonium. Pli. Alluit gentes illas fluuius. Sen. Runneth by.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
al-lŭo (adl-), ŭi, 3, v. n., to flow near to, to wash against, to bathe, of the sea, the waves, etc. (perh. not used before the Cic. per.). I.Lit.: non adluuntur a mari moenia, Cic. Verr. 2, 5, 37, 96: ita jactantur fluctibus, ut numquam adluantur, id. Sex. Rosc. 72: fluvius latera haec adluit, id. Leg. 2, 3, 6: flumen quo adluitur oppidum, Plin. 6, 4; Verg. A. 8, 149: amnis ora vicina adluens, Sen. Hippol. 1232: adluit gentes Maeotis, id. Oedip. 475.—II. Fig.: (Massilia) cincta Gallorum gentibus barbariae fluctibus adluitur, Cic. Fl. 26, 63.