To powre in: to hil on. Infundere cribro pro in cribrum. Sencc. To powre into the sleue. Maius poculum alicui infundere. Ho. To powre a great pot into. Infundere in vas. Cic. To powre into a vessel. Infundere faucibus. Col. To powre into his mouth. Infundere in naribus. Col. To put into the nostrels. Infundere per nares. Col. Idem. Quum homines humiliores in alienum eiusdem nominis infund erentur genus. Cic When poore men were transposed into au other kind of the same name. Infundere orarionem in aures alicuins. Cicer. To vtter hys wordes in ones eares or hearing. Infundere vitia in ciuitatem. Cic. To spread many vices among the citizens. Infundere alicui venenum. Cicero. To put poison into ones cup. Infundere. Virg. To powre on. Infundere humeris. Vir.

I. Lit.: aliquid in aliquod vas, Cic. Tusc. 1, 25, 61: vinum reticulo aut cribro, Sen. Ben. 7, 19: aliquid in nares, Plin. 20, 17, 69, 180: sine riguis mare in salinas infundentibus, id. 31, 7, 39, 81: rex Mithridates Aquilio duci capto aurum in os infudit, id. 33, 3, 14, 48: animas formatae terrae, Ov. M. 1, 364; Plin. 3, 1, 1, 5: sibi resinam et nardum, to anoint one's self with, Auct. B. H. 33; Plin. 10, 46, 63, 129.—

B. Transf.

1. Infundere alicui aliquid, to pour out for, to administer to, present to, lay before: alicui venenum, Cic. Phil. 11, 6, 13: alicui poculum, Hor. Epod. 5, 77: jumentis hordea, Juv. 8, 154: (Neroni) totam tremuli frontem pulli, id. 6, 616.—Esp., as a medicine, to administer to a person, for a disease: (aloë) dysenteriae infunditur, Plin. 27, 4, 5, 20: tenesmo et dysentericis, id. 20, 21, 84, 227.—With abl.: clystere, Plin. 24, 9, 40, 66.—

2. To wet, moisten: olivam aceto non acerrimo, Col. 12, 47: si uvam nimius imber infuderit, Pall. 11, 9.—

3. To pour out, cast, hurl anywhere: nimbum desuper alicui, Verg. A. 4, 122: gemmas margaritasque mare littoribus infundit, Curt. 8, 9: vim sagittarum ratibus, id. 9, 7: agmen urbi, Flor. 3, 21, 6: agmina infusa Graecis, Curt. 5, 7, 1; cf. 7, 9, 8.—

4. To mix itself, mingle with any thing: cum homines humiliores in alienum ejusdem nominis infunderentur genus, Cic. Brut. 16, 62; id. Fam. 9, 15, 2.—

II. Trop., to pour into, spread over, communicate, impart: orationem in aures tuas, Cic. de Or. 2, 87, 355: aliquid ejusmodi auribus ejus, Amm. 14, 9, 2: imperatoris auribus, id. 15, 3, 5: magorum sensibus, id. 23, 6, 33: per aures cantum, Sil. 11, 433: vitia in civitatem, Cic. Leg. 3, 14, 32: nihil ex illius animo quod semel esset infusum, umquam effluere potuisse, id. de Or. 2, 47, 300: rebus lumen, Sen. Hipp. 154: civitati detrimenta (acc. to others, infligere), Just. 3, 5.— Hence, in-fūsus, a, um, P. a., poured over or into.

A. Lit.: sucus infusus auribus, Plin. 20, 8, 27, 69: cinis in aurem, id. 30, 3, 8, 24: sucus per nares, id. 25, 13, 92, 144: vino, drunk with wine, Macr. S. 7, 5: infusam vomitu egerere aquam, swallowed, Curt. 7, 5, 8.—

B. Transf., of things not fluid: nudos umeris infusa capillos, falling down on, Ov. M. 7, 183: canitiem infuso pulvere foedans, Cat. 64, 224: si qua concurrerat, obruebatur (navis) infuso igni, Liv. 37, 30, 5: sole infuso (terris), at daybreak, Verg. A. 9, 461: conjugis gremio, resting on her bosom, id. ib. 8, 406: collo infusa amantis, Ov. H. 2, 93: populus circo, Verg. A. 5, 552: totamque infusa per artus Mens agitat molem, id. ib. 6, 726: infusa tranquilla per aethera pace, Sil. 7, 258: cera in eam formam gypsi infusa, Plin. 35, 12, 4, 153: imago senis cadaveri infusa, Quint. 6, 1, 40.