Profluo, prófluis, profluxi, profluxum, proflúere. Plau. To run down or out: to runne from a farre.Si lacus emissus lapsu & cursu ad mare profluxisser.Cicer.Humor profluit.Virg.A moyster runneth downe.Profluunt lachrymæ ab oculis. Colu. Teares trickle from his eyes.Profluit sanguis ex vulnere. Plin. Runneth out of.Cuius ore sermo melle dulcior profluebat. Author ad Her. From whose mouth most pleasaunt language slowed. Ab his fontibus profluxi ad hominum famam.Cic.This was the first beginning of my fame & renowme. Of these things did spring my first commendation & fame among men.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
prō-flŭo, xi, xum, 3, v. n., to flow forth or along (class.). I.Lit.: Mosa profluit ex monte Vogeso, Caes. B. G. 4, 10: si lacrimae ab oculis et pituita a naribus profluent, Col. 6, 7, 11: umor profluit, Verg. G. 4, 25: sanguis profluens, Enn. ap. Cic. Tusc. 2, 16, 38: sudor, Just. 15, 4, 17: per fossas, Plin. 33, 4, 21, 76: ad mare, Cic. Div. 1, 44, 100.—B.Transf.1.To cause a running or flow: gravedo profluit, Plaut. As. 4, 1, 51.—2.To be relaxed: videndum est an adstrictum corpus sit, an profluat, Cels. 3, 6: si venter profluit, id. 3, 6.—II.Trop., to flow forth, issue, proceed (class.): quae ab hoc fonte profluant, Varr. L. L. 8, 62 Müll.: cujus ore sermo melle dulcior profluebat, Auct. Her. 4, 33, 44: equidem ab his fontibus profluxi ad hominum famam, Cic. Cael. 3, 6: ad incognitas artes, to proceed to, to fall or hit upon, Tac. A. 11, 26.— Hence, prōflŭens, entis, P. a., flowing along (class.). A.Lit.: aqua profluens, Cic. Q. Fr. 3, 1, 2.—2.Subst.: prōflŭens, entis, f. (sc. aqua), running water (class.): in profluentem deferri, Cic. Inv. 2, 50, 149; cf. Auct. Her. 1, 13, 23; Flor. 1, 1, 2; 4, 12, 9.—B.Trop., of speech, flowing, fluent: genus sermonis affert non liquidum, non fusum ac profluens, sed exile, aridum, concisum, Cic. de Or. 2, 38, 159: profluens et perennis loquacitas, id. ib. 3, 48, 185: profluens atque expedita celeritas, id. Brut. 61, 220: profluens quiddam habuit Carbo et canorum, id. de Or. 3, 7, 28: eloquentia, Tac. A. 13, 3.—Sup.: manuum suarum profluentissima largitas, Arn. in Psa. 104.— Hence, adv.: prōflŭenter, flowingly; trop., easily (class.): ergo omnia profluenter, absolute, prospere, Cic. Tusc. 5, 18, 53. —Comp., of speech, more fluently (postclass.): profluentius exsequi, Gell. 14, 1, 32.
