To flowe downewarde: to fall off or away: to come to nothing. Segnis aqua secundo defluit amni. Virg. Runneth downe. Defluere ad terram, vel in terram. Liui. To fall downe to the ground. Moribundus ad terram defluxit. Defluit in Lagoum amnem Opharus. Pli. The viuer Opharus runneth into. Coronæ defluunt. Ci. Their garlands fal from their heads. In latus dextro paulatim defluit armo. Ouid. It fel downe from. Aut ctuor, aut alto defluit ab æthere tabes. Luca. Defluunt hæc superis in terram. Cic. They come from heauen to vs as Gods benefice. Hoc totum è sophistarum fontibus defluxit in forum. Cice. Al this came from the fountaines of the sophisters, into the vse of pleading in the common place. Pedes vestis defluxit ad imos. Virg. His coate fell downe, or did hang downe low to his feete. Ignauus defluxit pectore somnus. Tibul. Defluere, pro Declinare. Quin. TantÛ que ab illo defluebãt. quantum ille ab antiquis descenderat. They inclined so much from him, as he did from them of auncient time. Defluere ex aliquo numero. Cic. Vnus me absente defluxit. Ofix one fell from me, and forsooke me in my absence. Defluere ad aliquem dicitur res aliqua. Cic. To fall or curne to ones commoditie. Oratio ab aliqua re defluxit ad aliam. Cicer. Fell from one matter to an other. Per socordiam, vires, tempus, ætas, ingenium defluxere. Salust. Strength, time, age, wit fell in decay, and consumed by slouthfulnesse. Defluit capillus. Plin. The haire falleth. Color defluit. Tibul. Colour fadeth or falleth away. Defluere luxu & & inertia. Colu. To marre and vndo himselfe with riot and ydlenesse. Defluxisse id dicitur quod transactum est. Cic. To be past. Vbi salutatio defluxit, literis me inuoluo. Cic. After I baue saluted my friends in the morning, I giue my selfe wholy to srudie. Anecessarijs artificijs ad elegantiora defluximus. Cice. We be come from necessarie sciences, &c. Defluere dicuntur beneficra. Senec. To be forgotten: to fall out of remembraunce. Id tibi ne defluat ex animo. Propert. Forget not that: let it not fall out of thy memorie.

I. To flow down.

A. Lit.: quod sanguen defluxerat, Cato ap. Gell. 3, 7, 19; cf.: sanguis a renibus, Plin. 24, 18, 105, 169: defluit lapidosus rivus, Ov. F. 3, 273: flamma ex Aetna monte, Liv. Fragm. 1, 116: flumen Lavida Tauro monte defluens, Sall. H. Fragm. ap. Prisc. p. 680 P.; cf.: saxis umor, Hor. Od. 1, 12, 29; Plin. 33, 5, 26, 86: Anaxum quo Varamus defluit, Plin. 3, 18, 22, 126: potus defluit ad pulmonem, Gell. 17, 11, 1.—

2. Transf., of things not liquid, to move downwards softly or gradually; to glide or flow down, descend: jam ipsae defluebant coronae, Cic. Tusc. 5, 21, 62.—Of clothing: pedes vestis defluxit ad imos, Verg. A. 1, 404: toga defluit male laxus, hangs carelessly, Hor. Sat. 1, 3, 31.—Of floating objects: aries mersus secundo defluit amni, floats, swims down, Verg. G. 3, 447; id. A. 7, 495; 8, 549: Ostiam Tiberi, to sail down, Suet. Ner. 27; Curt. 9, 8 fin. —Of riders: tota cohors imitata relictis Ad terram defluxit equis, dismounted, Verg. A. 11, 501; cf.: ex equo, Curt. 7, 7 fin.: in humum (ex equo), Furius poët. ap. Macr. S. 6, 4: ad terram, Liv. 2, 20; and, a dextro armo in latus, Ov. M. 6, 229.—

B. Trop., to flow, come, pass: hoc totum e sophistarum fontibus defluxit in forum, Cic. Or. 27 fin.: a necessariis artificiis ad elegantiora, id. Tusc. 1, 25, 62; cf.: (adolescentes) tantum ab eo (sc. Seneca) defluebant, quantum, etc., departed, deviated, Quint. 10, 1, 126 Frotsch., Cic. Lael. 26, 100: a quibus duplex Octaviorum familia defluxit, are derived, descended, Suet. Aug. 2; cf. Vell. 1, 16, 4: ne quid in terram defluat, be spilled on the ground, be lost, Cic. Lael. 16, 58: multaque merces tibi defluat aequo ab Jove, flow to thee in abundance, Hor. Od. 1, 28, 28 (cf. Theocr. 1, 5: *)/es te katar)r(ei=): a superis, Cic. N. D. 2, 31, 79; cf.: si quid redundarit, ad illum defluxisse, etc., Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 66. —

II. To flow or pass away so as to disappear, to cease flowing.

A. Lit.: rusticus exspectat dum defluat amnis, Hor. Ep. 1, 2, 32; cf.: cum hiberni defluxere torrentes, Sen. Q. N. 3, 3.—

B. Trop., to cease, vanish, pass away, disappear, be lost: ex novem tribunis unus defluxit, has deserted, proved unfaithful, Cic. Sest. 32: ubi salutatio defluxit, has ceased, is over, id. Fam. 9, 20 fin.: ubi per socordiam vires, tempus, ingenium defluxere, Sall. J. 1, 4: tenerae sucus Defluat praedae, Hor. Od. 3, 27, 55; id. Ep. 2, 1, 158.—So of the falling out of the hair, Plin. 11, 37, 56, 154; 11, 39, 94, 231: comae, Ov. M. 6, 141.—In eccl. Lat. = defloresco: folium, Vulg. Isa. 34, 4; 1, 30; id. Psa. 1, 3.