Diffluo, diffluis, diffluxi, diffluxum, difflúere. Plin. To flowe abroade: to flowe into diuers partes: to runne abroade as water doth.Sudore diffluere. Plin. To be in a great sweat: to drop downe with sweat on euery part.Humor diffluit Lucr. Diffluere otio.Cic.To be drowned in ydlenes.Diffluere voluptatibus.To swim in sensualitie and pleasure.Animus diffluit luxuria & lasciuia. Ter. His minde is altogither ginen to riot and wantonnes.Dilapsa diffluxerunt.Cic.They belfallen dowue, in decay and out of order.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
dif-flŭo, ĕre, v. n., to flow in different directions, to flow away (class.; repeatedly in Lucr.—cf.: laxo, rescindo, solvo). I.Lit.: diffluere humorem cernis, Lucr. 3, 436; cf.: ut nos quasi extra ripas diffluentes coerceret, Cic. Brut. 91 fin.; cf.: in plures partes (Rhenus),
divides itself
, Caes. B. G. 4, 10, 4: ut ab summo tibi diffluat altus acervus, Lucr. 3, 198.—Poet., of that from which any thing flows: duo juvenes, Sudore multo diffluentes,
dripping with perspiration
, Phaedr. 4, 25, 23; so, sudore, Plin. 21, 13, 44, 75.—2.Transf., to dissolve, melt away, disappear: privata cibo natura animantum Diffluit amittens corpus, Lucr. 1, 1038: juga montium diffluunt, Sen. Ep. 91, p. 19 Bip.; so,
to be wasted
, Amm. 15, 8, 18.—II.Trop., to be dissolved in, abandoned to: luxuriā et lasciviā, Ter. Heaut. 5, 1, 72: luxuriā, Cic. Off. 1, 30, 106: luxu et inertia, Col. 12 prooem. 9, for which, in luxum, Prud: Symm. 1, 125: deliciis, Cic. Lael. 15; cf.: otio diffluentes, id. de Or. 3, 32 fin.: luxu, id. Tusc. 2, 22, 52; cf. risu, App. M. 3, p. 132.—In rhet.: diffluens ac solutum,
loose, not periodic
, Cic. Or. 70; 233; cf.: verbis humidis et lapsantibus diffluere, Gell. 1, 15.