Fluctus, huius fluctus, m. g. Cic.A sloude or waue of water stirred by tempest: businesse or trouble of aduersitie: disquietnesse of minde through any affection: a violent course or assanlt: a great multitude.Motus & agitatio fluctuum.Cic.Atri fluctus.Virg. Cærulei. Sil. Cani. Lucr. Decumani. Fest. Pomp. Discordes. Sene. Ingentes. Lucr. Salsi. Virg.Spumiferi.Stat.Sonori.Stat. Vastus fluctus. Val. Flac.Varijs fluctibus agi. Sen. To be tossed in many tempestuous stormes. Immodicis fluctibus canent æquora.Ouidius.The sea is white with the fome rising of the waues.Ad fluctum declamabat Demosthenes.Cic.Demosthenes vsed to declaime by the waters side.Ratem dédere fluctibus. Sen. Egerit hic fluctus.Ouid.Casteth vp waues.Per longos ire fluctus. Hor. Insani ssuctus feriunt littora.Virg.The raging sourges dash against the sea bankes.Ferre fluctum.Cic.To abide.Euolutos frangit fluctus opposita Leucas. Sen. Fracti fluctus. Hor. Iactari fluctibus.Cic.To be tossed in tempestuous surges.Illiditur fluctus. Quint. Impacti fluctus. Plin. Languentes fluctus. Sil. Percussa flucta littora.Virg.Secare fluctus naue.Ouid.Sedati fluctus.Cic.The surges or waues quieted.Cano fluctu spumabant cærula.Virg.Submersus medio in fluctu.Virg.Tumidis fluctibus tunditur saxum.Virg. Fluctus, pro impetu vel multitudine.Cic.Fluctum totius barbariæ vrbs vna ferre non poterat.Cicer. Id est, Impetum vel multitudinem. Concionum fluctus. Cice. The troublous stirre in conuocations and assembles.Insanos curarum comprime fluctus. Sil. Repreffe the troublous passions of care and sorrowes.Voluere curarum tristes in pectore fluctus. Lucr. Fluctus fortunæ. Plin. The stormes of aduersitie.Irarum fluctus. Lucr. Troublous pangs, &c.Fluctífragus. pe. cor. Adiectiuum: vt, Littus fluctifragum. Luc. That breaketh the waues.
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fluctus, ūs (ante-class. form of the gen. sing. fluctuis, Varr. and Nigid. ap. Gell. 4, 16, 1; nom. plur. flucti, Pac. and Att. ap. Non. 488, 12), m. [fluo; cf. fluctio], the peculiar motion of fluids, a flowing, waving.I. In abstr. (rare; cf.: unda, fluentum): jactetur aquae fluctu quoque terra vacillans, Lucr. 6, 554 sq.—Of the flowing motion of the magnetic fluid (v. aestus): Cogitur offensare pulsareque fluctu Ferrea texta suo, Lucr. 6, 1053.—In mal. part., Lucr. 4, 1271; cf. fluctuo, I. afin.—II.Transf., a flow, flood.—In concr., a wave, billow, surge, esp. of the sea (the predom. signif. of the word in prose and poetry; esp. freq. in the plur.). (a).Sing.: fons aquae dulcis, qui fluctu totus operiretur, nisi, etc., the flood, i. e. high tide, Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 53, 118: alia fluctus differt, dissipat visceratim membra, Maria salsa spumant sanguine, Enn. ap. Non. 183, 18 (Trag. v. 144 ed. Vahl.): ab saxo avortit fluctus ad litus scapham, Plaut. Rud. 1, 2, 76; 82: fluctum a saxo frangi, Cic. Fam. 9, 16, 6: fluctus uti ... volutus Ad terras immane sonat per saxa, Verg. G. 3, 237: ad fluctum aiunt declamare solitum Demosthenem, ut fremitum assuesceret voce vincere,
to the waves
, Cic. Fin. 5, 2, 5.— (b).Plur.: indu mari magno fluctus extollere certant, Enn. ap. Macr. S. 6, 2 (Ann. v. 425 ed. Vahl.): mulserat huc navim compulsam fluctibus pontus, id. ap. Prisc. p. 870 P. (Ann. v. 257 ed. Vahl.): excitatis maximis fluctibus, Cic. Rep. 1, 6: (insulae) fluctibus cinctae, id. ib. 2, 4; cf.: Massilia, quae cincta Gallorum gentibus barbariae fluctibus alluitur, id. Fl. 26, 63: sese fluctibus committere, id. Verr. 2, 2, 37, 91: sedatis fluctibus, id. Inv. 2, 51, 154: puppes ad magnitudinem fluctuum tempestatumque accommodatae, Caes. B. G. 3, 13, 3: in fluctibus consistere, id. ib. 4, 24, 2: fluctibus compleri, id. ib. 4, 28fin.: luctantem Icariis fluctibus Africum Mercator metuens, Hor. C. 1, 1, 15: o navis, referent in mare te novi Fluctus, id. ib. 1, 14, 2: mulcere fluctus et tollere vento, Verg. A. 1, 66: procella ... fluctus ad sidera tollit, id. ib. 1, 103: revomere salsos fluctus pectore, id. ib. 5, 182.—Prov.: excitare fluctus in simpulo, to raise a tempest in a tea-pot, i. e. to make much ado about nothing, Cic. Leg. 3, 16, 36.—2.Poet. transf., a stream of odors: unde fluens volvat varius se fluctus odorum, Lucr. 4, 675.—And of a stream of fire: atro volvens incendia fluctu, Val. Fl. 7, 572.—B.Trop., like tempestas and unda, and our waves or billows, for turbulence, commotion, disturbance: qui in hac tempestate populi jactemur et fluctibus, Cic. Planc. 4, 11; cf. contionum, id. Mil. 2, 5: rerum Fluctibus in mediis, Hor. Ep. 2, 2, 85; cf. also Lucr. 5, 11: hoc omne tempus post consulatum objecimus iis fluctibus, qui per nos a communi peste depulsi, in nosmet ipsos redundarunt, Cic. de Or. 1, 1, 3; id. Att. 8, 3, 5: fluctus civiles, Nep. Att. 6: capere irarum fluctus in pectore, Lucr. 3, 298; so, irarum, id. 6, 74; Verg. A. 12, 831; Val. Max. 9, 3 init.: tristes curarum, Lucr. 6, 34: belli, id. 5, 1290.