Perfluo, pérfluis, pe. cor. perfluxi, perfluxum, perflúere. Lucre. To run out as water doth out of a broken vessel: to rÛ out on euerie part: to leake.Vina per collum videmus perfluere. Lucr. Perfluere, per translationem. Terentius, plenus rimarum sum, hac atque illac perfluo. I am ful of chinckes, & leake out on this side and that side euerie way, I can keepe no counsaile at all.Perfluere voluptatibus.Cic.To swim in sensualitie: to liue all at pleasure. Infima valle perfluit Tybris. Li. Tyber runneth in the bottome of the valley.Perfluctuare. Lucr. To slow or run very much, or in abundance.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
per-flŭo, xi, 3, v. a. and n.I.Act., to flow or run through (post-class.): pluvialibus nimbis perfluuntur, Arn. 6, 191.—II.Neutr.A.Lit.1.To flow or run through (poet. and in post-Aug. prose): per colum vina videmus Perfluere, Lucr. 2, 392; Petr. 23.—2. In gen., to flow: quasi in vas commoda perfluere, Lucr. 3, 937: Belus amnis in mare perfluens, Plin. 36, 26, 65, 190.—b.To drip with any thing (postclass.): sudore perfluere, App. M. 1, p. 108, 1.—c. Of long garments, to flow or float (post-class.), App. M. 11, p. 258, 30.— B.Trop.: plenus rimarum sum: hac atque illac perfluo, I leak, i. e. I cannot keep the secret, Ter. Eun. 1, 2, 25.