A great riuer. Flumen riui. Plin. The course or streame of a riuer. Prima flumina Nili bibere. Mart. To drinke of the water of that fountaine that Nilus springeth out of. Accessus fluminum. Sen. Plin. Alueus fluminis. Virg. Aduerso flumioe lembum subigit. Virgil. Hee driueth his boote against the streame. Altum flumen. Virg. Caua flumina. Virg. Decliuia flumina Ouid. Dulce flumen ouibus. Hor. Frigida flumina. Virg. Herbosum flumen. Virg. Lata flumina. Virg. Latebrosa flumina, Vide LATEO. Virg. Limosa flumina. Ouid. Magnum flumen. Horat. Nobile. Ouid. Pingui flumine Nilus. Virg. Nilus that doth make the land battle and fatte. Publicum flumen. Cic. Rapidum. Quint. Sacrum. Virg. Sanctum. Virg. Secundum. Tacit. Septemflua flumina Nili. Oui. Sonora. Vir. Roaring riuers. Vaga. Hor. Validum flumen. Lucr. Viuum. Virg. That alway runneth. Auertere flumen. Cæs. Concita flumina. Ouid. Riuers hauing a swift course. Gelo flumina constiterunt. Hor. The riuers were frozen. Decrescentia flumina. Hor. Riuers falling. Diducere in riuos maxima flumina. Quint. Deuehitur flumine. Tacit. He is carried by riuer. Effuso flumine stagnans Nilus. Virg. Languido flumine errans Cocytus. Hora. Cocytus running with a slowe course. Fugientia flumina. Stat. Largo humectat flumine vultum. Virg. She we epeth abundantly, or washeth hir face with teares. Increuerunt flum ina. Ouid. Riuers rose. Innatare flumini. Plin. Interueniente flumine. Plin. Inuehi flumine, Vide INVEHO. Labentia flumina. Ouid. Mergere se in flumen, Vide MERGO. Expariata ruunt per apertos flumina campos Ouid. Subsidunt flumina. Ouid. Riuers sincke. Superare flumina. Ouid. To passe ouer riuers. Torrentia flumina. Virg. Swikt running streames. Vomens calidum de pectore flumen. Vir. Casting out great abundance of warme bloude. Ingenij flumen. Cicer. An abundant, plentifull, or flowing witre. Orationis flumen & veritas. Cic. The pleasant running and varietie of ones stile. Verborum flumen. Cic. A readie flowing of wordes.

I. In gen. (mostly poet.): Romane, aquam Albanam cave lacu contineri, cave in mare manare suo flumine sinas, an old prophetic formula ap. Liv. 5, 16, 9: rapidus montano flumine torrens, Verg. A. 2, 305; cf. Ov. R. Am. 651: visendus ater flumine languido Cocytos errans, Hor. C. 2, 14, 17: inde sequemur Ipsius amnis iter, donec nos flumine certo Perferat, Val. Fl. 8, 189: et Tiberis flumen vomit in mare salsum, Enn. ap. Macr. S. 6, 4 (Ann. v. 453 ed. Vahl.); cf.: teque pater Tiberine tuo cum flumine sancto, id. ib. 6, 1 (Ann. v. 55 ib.): donec me flumine vivo Abluero, in a living, running stream, Verg. A. 2, 719; cf.: quin tu ante vivo perfunderis flumine? Auct. ap. Liv. 1, 45, 6 (for which: aqua viva, Varr. L. L. 5, 123 Müll.).—In plur.: nymphae venas et flumina fontis Elicuere sui, streams, Ov. M. 14, 788: frigida Scamandri, Hor. Epod. 13, 14: Symaethia circum Flumina, Verg. A. 9, 585: limosa potat, Ov. M. 1, 634; cf.: Tantalus a labris sitiens fugientia captat Flumina, Hor. S. 1, 1, 69: maritima immittere in piscinas, Varr. R. R. 3, 17, 9.

II. In partic., a river.

A. Lit. (the predominant signif. of the word both in prose and poetry): quod per amoenam urbem leni fluit agmine flumen, Enn. ap. Macr. S. 6, 4 (Ann. v. 177 ed. Vahl.); cf.: ut flumina in contrarias partes fluxerint, Cic. Div. 1, 35, 78: Scipio biduum moratus ad flumen, quod inter eum et Domitii castra fluebat, Caes. B. C. 3, 37, 1: aurea flumina, Lucr. 5, 911: habet non tantum venas aquarum terra, ex quibus corrivatis flumina effici possunt, sed et amnes magnitudinis vastae, etc., Sen. Q. N. 3, 19; cf. Cic. Rep. 2, 5: nec ullum hoc frigidius flumen attigi, id. Leg. 2, 3, 6: nos flumina arcemus, dirigimus, avertimus, id. N. D. 2, 60, 152: una pars (Galliae) initium capit a flumine Rhodano, continetur Garumna flumine ... attingit etiam flumen Rhenum, etc., Caes. B. G. 1, 1, 6 sq.; 1, 2, 7: inter montem Juram et flumen Rhodanum, id. ib. 1, 6, 1: flumen est Arar, quod, etc., id. ib. 1, 12, 1: flumen Dubis, id. ib. 1, 38, 4: non Seres, non Tanain prope flumen orti, Hor. C. 4, 15, 24: Veliternos ad Asturae flumen Maenius fudit, Liv. 8, 13, 5 Drak. N. cr.: terrarum situs et flumina dicere, Hor. Ep. 2, 1, 252: secundo flumine ad Lutetiam iter facere coepit, with the stream, Caes. B. G. 7, 58, 5 (cf. secundus, 2. a.): magnum ire agmen adverso flumine, against the stream, Caes. B. G. 7, 60, 3; cf. Verg. G. 1, 201; Liv. 24, 40. —Prov.: flumine vicino stultus sitit, like, starves in the midst of plenty, Petr. Fragm. p. 899 Burm.—

2. Transf., of other things which flow in streams or like streams, a stream, flood (poet. and in post-Aug. prose): sanguinis, Lucr. 2, 354; 4, 1029: largoque humectat flumine vultum, flood of tears, Verg. A. 1, 465: laeta magis pressis manabunt flumina mammis, streams of milk, id. G. 3, 310: flumina jam lactis, jam flumina nectaris, Ov. M. 1, 111: rigido concussae flumine nubes Exonerabantur, a torrent of rain, Petr. poët. Sat. 123; cf.: ut picis e caelo demissum flumen, a stream of pitch, Lucr. 6, 257: magnesia flumine saxa, in the magnetic stream, id. 6, 1064: effusaeque ruunt inopino flumine turbae, i. e. in a vast stream, Sil. 12, 185; cf. Verg. A. 11, 236: aëris, a current of air, App. de Mund. p. 61, 33 Elm. p. 258 Bip.—

B. Trop., of expression, a flow, fluency, stream: orationis flumine reprehensoris convicia diluuntur, Cic. N. D. 2, 7, 20: flumen orationis aureum, id. Ac. 2, 38, 119: orationis, id. de Or. 2, 15, 62; cf.: flumen verborum volubili tasque, id. Or. 16, 53: gravissimorum op timorumque verborum, id. de Or. 2, 45, 188: inanium verborum, id. N. D. 2, 1, 1: Lysias ... puro fonti quam magno flumini propior, Quint. 10, 1, 78; 9, 4, 61; cf. id. 10, 1, 61; Petr. 5 fin.—And fig.: neque concipere neque edere partum mens potest, nisi ingenti flumine litterarum inundata, Petr. 118.