flowing robes

af-flŭo (better adf-), xi, xum, 3, v. a. and n., to flow or run to or toward; with ad or dat.

Lit., of water:

aestus bis adfluunt bisque remeant,

Plin. 2, 97, 99, § 212:

Rhenus ad Gallicam ripam placidior adfluens,

Tac. A. 4, 6.—In the lang. of the Epicurean philos., of the flow of atoms from an object, as the cause of perception (cf. aestus, II. C.), Cic. N. D. 1, 19, 49.— Poet., of time: Maecenas meus adfluentes Ordinat annos, flowing on, increasing, = accrescentes, Hor. C. 4, 11, 19.—

Transf.

Of persons, to come to in haste, to hasten to, to run or flock to or toward (only poet. and in the histt. from the Aug. per.):

ingentem comitum adfluxisse Invenio numerum,

Verg. A. 2, 796:

copiae adfluebant,

Liv. 39, 31:

adfluentibus auxiliis Gallorum,

Tac. H. 4, 25:

multitudo adfluens,

id. A. 4, 41.— Of food, to flow down:

cibo adfluente,

Suet. Claud. 44.— Trop.:

si ea sola voluptas esset, quae ad eos (sensus) cum suavitate adflueret et inlaberetur,

Cic. Fin. 1, 11:

nihil ex istis locis litterarum adfluxit,

id. Q. Fr. 3, 3:

incautis amor,

Ov. R. A. 148:

opes adfluunt subito, repente dilabuntur,

Val. Max. 6, 9 fin. —

Aliquā re, to flow with a thing in rich abundance, to overflow with, to abound in, to have in abundance (more elevated than abundo; hence adfluens in Cic. Oratt. is much more freq. than abundans):

frumento,

Plaut. Ps. 1, 2, 57:

divitiis honore et laude,

Lucr. 6, 13:

voluptatibus,

Cic. Fin. 2, 28, 93:

cui cum domi otium atque divitiae adfluerent,

Sall. C. 36, 4:

ubi effuse adfluunt opes,

Liv. 3, 26.—Hence, afflŭ-ens ( adf-), entis, P. a., flowing abundantly with a thing, having in abundance or superfluity; abounding in; abundant, rich, copious, numerous: Asiatico ornatu, Liv. Andron. ap. Prisc. 1, 10:

unguentis,

Cic. Sest. 8:

urbs eruditissimis hominibus, liberalissimisque studiis adfluens,

id. Arch. 3; so id. Rosc. Com. 10; id. Verr. 2, 5, 54; id. Clu. 66; id. Agr. 2, 30; id. de Or. 3, 15; id. Off. 1, 43; id. Lael. 16 al.:

uberiores et adfluentiores aquae,

Vitr. 8, 1.— Poet.:

homo vestitu adfluens,

in ample, flowing robes, Phaedr. 5, 1, 22:

ex adfluenti,

in abundance, profusely, Tac. H. 1, 57 al. — Sup., Sol. c. 50; Aug. Conf. 2, 6.— Adv.: afflŭente ( adf-), richly, copiously, App. M. 4.— Comp., Cic. Tusc. 5, 6; Nep. Att. 14; Tac. A. 15, 54.

af-flŭo (better adf-), xi, xum, 3, v. a. and n., to flow or run to or toward; with ad or dat.

Lit., of water:

aestus bis adfluunt bisque remeant,

Plin. 2, 97, 99, § 212:

Rhenus ad Gallicam ripam placidior adfluens,

Tac. A. 4, 6.—In the lang. of the Epicurean philos., of the flow of atoms from an object, as the cause of perception (cf. aestus, II. C.), Cic. N. D. 1, 19, 49.— Poet., of time: Maecenas meus adfluentes Ordinat annos, flowing on, increasing, = accrescentes, Hor. C. 4, 11, 19.—

Transf.

Of persons, to come to in haste, to hasten to, to run or flock to or toward (only poet. and in the histt. from the Aug. per.):

ingentem comitum adfluxisse Invenio numerum,

Verg. A. 2, 796:

copiae adfluebant,

Liv. 39, 31:

adfluentibus auxiliis Gallorum,

Tac. H. 4, 25:

multitudo adfluens,

id. A. 4, 41.— Of food, to flow down:

cibo adfluente,

Suet. Claud. 44.— Trop.:

si ea sola voluptas esset, quae ad eos (sensus) cum suavitate adflueret et inlaberetur,

Cic. Fin. 1, 11:

nihil ex istis locis litterarum adfluxit,

id. Q. Fr. 3, 3:

incautis amor,

Ov. R. A. 148:

opes adfluunt subito, repente dilabuntur,

Val. Max. 6, 9 fin. —

Aliquā re, to flow with a thing in rich abundance, to overflow with, to abound in, to have in abundance (more elevated than abundo; hence adfluens in Cic. Oratt. is much more freq. than abundans):

frumento,

Plaut. Ps. 1, 2, 57:

divitiis honore et laude,

Lucr. 6, 13:

voluptatibus,

Cic. Fin. 2, 28, 93:

cui cum domi otium atque divitiae adfluerent,

Sall. C. 36, 4:

ubi effuse adfluunt opes,

Liv. 3, 26.—Hence, afflŭ-ens ( adf-), entis, P. a., flowing abundantly with a thing, having in abundance or superfluity; abounding in; abundant, rich, copious, numerous: Asiatico ornatu, Liv. Andron. ap. Prisc. 1, 10:

unguentis,

Cic. Sest. 8:

urbs eruditissimis hominibus, liberalissimisque studiis adfluens,

id. Arch. 3; so id. Rosc. Com. 10; id. Verr. 2, 5, 54; id. Clu. 66; id. Agr. 2, 30; id. de Or. 3, 15; id. Off. 1, 43; id. Lael. 16 al.:

uberiores et adfluentiores aquae,

Vitr. 8, 1.— Poet.:

homo vestitu adfluens,

in ample, flowing robes, Phaedr. 5, 1, 22:

ex adfluenti,

in abundance, profusely, Tac. H. 1, 57 al. — Sup., Sol. c. 50; Aug. Conf. 2, 6.— Adv.: afflŭente ( adf-), richly, copiously, App. M. 4.— Comp., Cic. Tusc. 5, 6; Nep. Att. 14; Tac. A. 15, 54.

af-flŭo (better adf-), xi, xum, 3, v. a. and n., to flow or run to or toward; with ad or dat.

Lit., of water:

aestus bis adfluunt bisque remeant,

Plin. 2, 97, 99, § 212:

Rhenus ad Gallicam ripam placidior adfluens,

Tac. A. 4, 6.—In the lang. of the Epicurean philos., of the flow of atoms from an object, as the cause of perception (cf. aestus, II. C.), Cic. N. D. 1, 19, 49.— Poet., of time: Maecenas meus adfluentes Ordinat annos, flowing on, increasing, = accrescentes, Hor. C. 4, 11, 19.—

Transf.

Of persons, to come to in haste, to hasten to, to run or flock to or toward (only poet. and in the histt. from the Aug. per.):

ingentem comitum adfluxisse Invenio numerum,

Verg. A. 2, 796:

copiae adfluebant,

Liv. 39, 31:

adfluentibus auxiliis Gallorum,

Tac. H. 4, 25:

multitudo adfluens,

id. A. 4, 41.— Of food, to flow down:

cibo adfluente,

Suet. Claud. 44.— Trop.:

si ea sola voluptas esset, quae ad eos (sensus) cum suavitate adflueret et inlaberetur,

Cic. Fin. 1, 11:

nihil ex istis locis litterarum adfluxit,

id. Q. Fr. 3, 3:

incautis amor,

Ov. R. A. 148:

opes adfluunt subito, repente dilabuntur,

Val. Max. 6, 9 fin. —

Aliquā re, to flow with a thing in rich abundance, to overflow with, to abound in, to have in abundance (more elevated than abundo; hence adfluens in Cic. Oratt. is much more freq. than abundans):

frumento,

Plaut. Ps. 1, 2, 57:

divitiis honore et laude,

Lucr. 6, 13:

voluptatibus,

Cic. Fin. 2, 28, 93:

cui cum domi otium atque divitiae adfluerent,

Sall. C. 36, 4:

ubi effuse adfluunt opes,

Liv. 3, 26.—Hence, afflŭ-ens ( adf-), entis, P. a., flowing abundantly with a thing, having in abundance or superfluity; abounding in; abundant, rich, copious, numerous: Asiatico ornatu, Liv. Andron. ap. Prisc. 1, 10:

unguentis,

Cic. Sest. 8:

urbs eruditissimis hominibus, liberalissimisque studiis adfluens,

id. Arch. 3; so id. Rosc. Com. 10; id. Verr. 2, 5, 54; id. Clu. 66; id. Agr. 2, 30; id. de Or. 3, 15; id. Off. 1, 43; id. Lael. 16 al.:

uberiores et adfluentiores aquae,

Vitr. 8, 1.— Poet.:

homo vestitu adfluens,

in ample, flowing robes, Phaedr. 5, 1, 22:

ex adfluenti,

in abundance, profusely, Tac. H. 1, 57 al. — Sup., Sol. c. 50; Aug. Conf. 2, 6.— Adv.: afflŭente ( adf-), richly, copiously, App. M. 4.— Comp., Cic. Tusc. 5, 6; Nep. Att. 14; Tac. A. 15, 54.

af-flŭo (better adf-), xi, xum, 3, v. a. and n., to flow or run to or toward; with ad or dat.

Lit., of water:

aestus bis adfluunt bisque remeant,

Plin. 2, 97, 99, § 212:

Rhenus ad Gallicam ripam placidior adfluens,

Tac. A. 4, 6.—In the lang. of the Epicurean philos., of the flow of atoms from an object, as the cause of perception (cf. aestus, II. C.), Cic. N. D. 1, 19, 49.— Poet., of time: Maecenas meus adfluentes Ordinat annos, flowing on, increasing, = accrescentes, Hor. C. 4, 11, 19.—

Transf.

Of persons, to come to in haste, to hasten to, to run or flock to or toward (only poet. and in the histt. from the Aug. per.):

ingentem comitum adfluxisse Invenio numerum,

Verg. A. 2, 796:

copiae adfluebant,

Liv. 39, 31:

adfluentibus auxiliis Gallorum,

Tac. H. 4, 25:

multitudo adfluens,

id. A. 4, 41.— Of food, to flow down:

cibo adfluente,

Suet. Claud. 44.— Trop.:

si ea sola voluptas esset, quae ad eos (sensus) cum suavitate adflueret et inlaberetur,

Cic. Fin. 1, 11:

nihil ex istis locis litterarum adfluxit,

id. Q. Fr. 3, 3:

incautis amor,

Ov. R. A. 148:

opes adfluunt subito, repente dilabuntur,

Val. Max. 6, 9 fin. —

Aliquā re, to flow with a thing in rich abundance, to overflow with, to abound in, to have in abundance (more elevated than abundo; hence adfluens in Cic. Oratt. is much more freq. than abundans):

frumento,

Plaut. Ps. 1, 2, 57:

divitiis honore et laude,

Lucr. 6, 13:

voluptatibus,

Cic. Fin. 2, 28, 93:

cui cum domi otium atque divitiae adfluerent,

Sall. C. 36, 4:

ubi effuse adfluunt opes,

Liv. 3, 26.—Hence, afflŭ-ens ( adf-), entis, P. a., flowing abundantly with a thing, having in abundance or superfluity; abounding in; abundant, rich, copious, numerous: Asiatico ornatu, Liv. Andron. ap. Prisc. 1, 10:

unguentis,

Cic. Sest. 8:

urbs eruditissimis hominibus, liberalissimisque studiis adfluens,

id. Arch. 3; so id. Rosc. Com. 10; id. Verr. 2, 5, 54; id. Clu. 66; id. Agr. 2, 30; id. de Or. 3, 15; id. Off. 1, 43; id. Lael. 16 al.:

uberiores et adfluentiores aquae,

Vitr. 8, 1.— Poet.:

homo vestitu adfluens,

in ample, flowing robes, Phaedr. 5, 1, 22:

ex adfluenti,

in abundance, profusely, Tac. H. 1, 57 al. — Sup., Sol. c. 50; Aug. Conf. 2, 6.— Adv.: afflŭente ( adf-), richly, copiously, App. M. 4.— Comp., Cic. Tusc. 5, 6; Nep. Att. 14; Tac. A. 15, 54.

ac-cingo, nxi, nctum, 3, v. a.

Lit., to gird to or on, to gird round or about (in prose, first after the Aug. per.;

in poetry, a favorite word with Verg.): lateri ensem,

Verg. A. 11, 489; and med., to gird one's self:

accingitur ense,

id. ib. 7, 640; cf.:

quo (ense) fuit accinctus,

Ov. M. 6, 551; so,

ferro,

Tac. A. 6, 2.—

Transf., to arm, equip, furnish, provide:

facibus pubes accingitur,

Verg. A. 9, 74:

gladiis accincti,

Liv. 40, 13;

hence: accinctus miles,

an armed soldier, Tac. A. 11, 18:

ornat Phraaten accingitque (sc. diademate imposito) paternum ad fastigium,

id. ib. 6, 32:

accinctus gemmis fuigentibus ensis,

Val. Fl. 3, 514.

Fig.

In gen., to endow, provide; in medicine:

magicas accingier artes,

to have recourse to, Verg. A. 4, 493.—

In part.: accingere se or accingi, to enter upon or undertake a thing, girded, i. e. well prepared, to prepare one's self, make one's self ready (taken from the girding of the flowing robes when in active occupation); constr. absol., with ad, in, dat., or inf.:

tibi omne est exedendum, accingere,

make yourself ready, Ter. Ph. 2, 2, 4; so id. Eun. 5, 9, 30; Lucr. 2, 1043:

illi se praedae accingunt,

Verg. A. 1, 210:

accingi ad consulatum,

Liv. 4, 2; in Tac. very often actively, to make any one ready for something:

turmas peditum ad munia accingere, A. 12, 31: accingi ad ultionem,

id. H. 4, 79:

in audaciam,

id. ib. 3, 66 al.; with inf.:

accingar dicere pugnas Caesaris,

Verg. G. 3, 46;

so: navare operam,

Tac. A. 15, 51.—

Also in the active form, as v. neutr. = se accingere: age, anus, accinge ad molas, Pompon. ap. Non. 469, 28 (Rib. Com. Rel. p. 235):

accingunt omnes operi,

all go vigorously to the work, Verg. A. 2, 235.—Hence, ac-cinctus, a, um, P. a., well girded.

Lit.: cujus aut familiaris habitus condecentior aut militaris accinctior, Auson. Grat. Act. 27.—

Fig., ready, strict (opp. negligens):

tam in omnia pariter intenta bonitas et accincta,

Plin. Pan. 30 fin.:

comitatus,

id. ib. 20, 3.