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flŭĭdus (access. form, flŭvĭdus, Lucr. 2, 452; 464 sq.; Sedul. Carm. 4, 186; Sen. Ep. 58, 24), a, um, adj. [fluo], flowing, fluid, moist (mostly poet. and in post-Aug. prose; not in Cic. or Caes.).

Lit.:

corpus,

Lucr. 2, 452:

quid tam contrarium est quam terrenum fluido?

Col. 8, 16, 1:

liquor,

Verg. G. 3, 484:

cruor,

id. A. 3, 663; Ov. M. 4, 482; cf.:

aspiciam fluidos humano sanguine rictus,

id. ib. 14, 168:

alvus,

Ser. Samm. 29 fin. —

Transf.

In opposition to solid or firm, soft, slack, lax, languid (syn.:

fluxus, languidus): lacerti,

Ov. M. 15, 231; cf.:

labor et aestus mollia et fluida Gallorum corpora decedere pugna coëgit,

Liv. 34, 47, 5:

caro,

Plin. 9, 30, 50, § 95:

vestis,

flowing, loose, Just. 41, 2; Sen. Oed. 422.—

Act., dissolving:

calor,

Ov. M. 15, 362.

flŭĭto (contract. flūto, Lucr. 3, 189; 4, 77; Varr. ap. Macr. S. 2, 12), āvi, ātum, 1, v. freq. n. [fluo], to float, swim, or sail about on the water, to flow (mostly poet. and in post-Aug. prose).

Lit.:

in lacu Apuscidamo omnia fluitant, nihil mergitur (shortly before: in quo stagno nihil innatet),

Plin. 31, 2, 18, § 22:

materies primo sidit, postea fluitare incipit,

id. 13, 7, 14, § 57: rei publicae navem fluitantem in alto tempestatibus, *Cic. Sest. 20, 46:

fluitans alvĕus,

Liv. 1, 4, 6:

fluitantes insulae,

Plin. 16, 36, 66, § 168:

ebenus in aquis non fluitat,

id. 16, 40, 76, § 204:

in summo,

id. 28, 9, 35, § 134:

contra aquas,

id. 29, 3, 12, § 52:

fusile aurum per rictus,

to flow, Ov. M. 11, 127:

jucundum utrumque per jocum ludumque fluitantibus,

those who sail about, Plin. Ep. 8, 8, 4.—

Transf., to move in a waving, unsteady manner; to wave, undulate:

fluitantia aplustra,

Lucr. 2, 555:

pleno fluitantia vela theatro,

Prop. 3, 18 (4, 17), 13:

vela summo fluitantia malo,

Ov. M. 11, 470:

fluitantia lora,

i. e. flowing, slack, id. A. A. 2, 433:

vestis non fluitans sed stricta et singulos artus exprimens,

flowing, loose, Tac. G. 17:

amictus,

Cat. 64, 68:

fluitans labansque miles,

staggering, Tac. H. 5, 18; 3, 27:

vela (in theatris) per malos trabesque trementia flutant namque... cogunt suo fluitare colore,

to wave, Lucr. 4, 77 sq. —

Trop., to be doubtful or uncertain, to waver:

animi incerto errore fluitans,

Lucr. 3, 1052:

spe dubiae horae,

Hor. Ep. 1, 18, 110:

unde primum creditur Caecinae fides fluitasse,

Tac. H. 2, 93 fin.:

fluitans fides,

Claud. B. G. 247:

citra lectionis exemplum labor ille (scribendi) carens rectore fluitabit, i. e. will be performed at random,

Quint. 10, 1, 2.

ĭmĭtor, ātus, 1 (archaic inf. pres. imitarier, Plaut. Capt. 3, 1, 25; Lucr. 5, 1377), v. freq. a. dep. [root im-, cf. aemulus], to imitate.

To represent, to express, copy, portray (class.):

summum illum luctum penicillo,

to portray, Cic. Or. 22, 74; cf.:

oris (Coae Veneris) pulchritudo reliqui corporis imitandi spem auferebat,

id. Off. 3, 2, 10:

aut Ialysi aut Coae Veneris pulchritudinem,

id. Or. 2, 5; id. Brut. 18, 70:

chirographum,

id. N. D. 3, 30, 74; id. Fam. 9, 20, 2:

faber ungues Exprimet et molles imitabitur aere capillos,

Hor. A. P. 33; cf.:

argillā quidvis imitabitur udā,

id. Ep. 2, 2, 8:

hunc in persona lenonis,

Cic. Rosc. Com. 7, 20:

populi speciem et nomen,

id. Rep. 3, 33:

antiquitatem,

id. Brut. 36, 137; cf.:

heroum veteres casus fictosque luctus imitari atque adumbrare dicendo,

id. de Or. 5, 47, 380:

imitans, ut est mos, facta et dicta vivi,

Suet. Vesp. 19:

sine imitandorum carminum actu ludiones,

not expressing by gesticulation, Liv. 7, 2, 4:

gaudia falsa,

Tib. 3, 6, 33; cf.

maestitiam,

Tac. A. 1, 24:

quaecumque (pictura) imitata figuram est,

Juv. 6, 341.— Poet.: putre solum imitamur arando, i. e. to make loose or friable, Verg. G. 2, 204:

robore duro Stipitibus ferrum sudibusque imitantur obustis,

replace, substitute, supply the place of, id. A. 11, 894:

pocula vitea fermento atque sorbis,

id. G. 3, 380; cf.:

diuturni mores consensu utentium comprobati legem imitantur,

Just. Inst. 1, 2, 9. —

To imitate, to act like, copy after, seek to resemble, counterfeit something (so most freq.):

imitabor nepam,

Plaut. Cas. 2, 8, 7:

imitabor ergo Aratum, qui magnis de rebus dicere exordiens, a Jove incipiendum putat,

Cic. Rep. 1, 36; cf.:

imitor Archytam,

id. ib. 1, 38:

Platonem,

id. Ac. 1, 3, 10:

aliquem imitando effingere atque exprimere,

id. de Or. 2, 22, 90; cf.:

quem (eloquentem) si imitari atque exprimere non possumus,

id. Or. 5, 19:

quem postea imitati sunt multi, aequavit nemo,

Plin. 35, 11, 40, § 126:

ipsi sibi imitandi fuerunt,

Cic. Or. 53, 177:

qui maxime imitandus, et solus imitandus est,

Quint. 10, 2, 24; cf.:

tu mihi maxime imitabilis, maxime imitandus videbaris,

Plin. Ep. 7, 20, 4:

noster ille amicus, dignus huic ad imitandum,

Cic. Rep. 1, 1 Mos.:

populi consuetudinem,

id. ib. 2, 20:

non dicam plura, ne, in quo te objurgem, id ipsum videar imitari,

id. Fam. 3, 8, 6:

in adeundis periculis consuetudo imitanda medicorum est,

id. Off. 1, 24, 83:

quod faciendum imitandumque est omnibus, ut, etc.,

id. Lael. 19, 70:

factum praeclarum expositum ad imitandum,

id. Phil. 2, 44, 114:

in qua (sc. domo) sollicitas imitatur janua portas,

resembles, Juv. 7, 42.

Act. form ĭmĭto, āre (anteclass.): si malos imitabo, Liv. Andr. ap. Non. 473, 22 (Fragm. Trag. v. 1 Rib.):

tuum opus nemo imitare potest,

Varr. ib. 21.—

ĭmĭtātus, a, um, in pass. signif.:

imitata et efficta simulacra,

Cic. Univ. 3, 6:

cum sint alii veri affectus, alii ficti et imitati,

Quint. 11, 3, 61:

nec abest imitata voluptas,

Ov. M. 9, 481; Avien. Fab. 5, 17.

in-cōnexus ( inconn-), a, um, adj., not joined together, disconnected (late Lat.):

res,

Aus. Edyll. ad Paul. 12.—

Transf., gram. t. t., = asunartêtos, of metrical construction, loose, disjointed, said of verses in which various forms of rhythm succeed one another, Mar. Vict. de Metr. p. 2534 P.; p. 2550 P.

in-flo, āvi, ātum, 1, v. a., to blow into or upon any thing, to inflate.

Lit.

In gen.:

age, jam infla buccas,

Plaut. Stich. 5, 5, 26:

ex ore in os palumbi inflare aquam,

Cato, R. R. 90:

tumidoque inflatur carbasus Austro,

is swelled, Verg. A. 3, 357:

merito quin illis Juppiter ambas Iratus buccas inflet,

should in a rage puff up both his cheeks, Hor. S. 1, 1, 21:

inflant (corpus) omnia fere legumina,

make flatulent, Cels. 2, 26.—

In partic., to play upon a wind instrument:

inflare cavas cicutas,

Lucr. 5, 1383:

calamos leves,

Verg. E. 5, 2.— Absol., to blow:

simul inflavit tibicen, a perito carmen agnoscitur,

Cic. Ac. 2, 27, 86.— With cognate acc.:

sonum,

Cic. de Or. 3, 60, 225. —

Trop., to puff up, inflate:

spe falsa animos,

Cic. Pis. 36, 89:

regis spem (with erigere animos),

Liv. 35, 42, 5:

animos ad intolerabilem superbiam,

id. 45, 31, 31; 37, 26, 4:

purpuratis solita vanitate spem ejus inflantibus,

Curt. 3, 2, 10; 5, 10, 3:

crescentem tumidis infla sermonibus utrem,

Hor. S. 2, 5, 98:

ipse erit glorià inflandus,

Quint. 11, 1 med. — Absol., of speech:

Antipater paulo inflavit vehementius,

blew a little too hard, Cic. Leg. 1, 2, 6.—Of music:

illi qui fecerunt modos, a quibus aliquid extenuatur, inflatur, variatur,

id. de Or. 3, 26, 102 fin.:

et ea (medicamenta) quae ob caritatem emendi mulo inedicorum cupiditas inflaverat,

puffed, bepraised, Veg. Vet. 4, 7, 4.— Hence, inflātus, a, um, P. a., blown into, filled with blowing.

Lit.:

si tibiae inflatae non referant sonum,

Cic. Brut. 51, 192:

bucina cecinit jussos inflata receptus,

Ov. M. 1, 340:

nolo verba inflata et quasi anhelata gravius exire,

with a too great expenditure of breath, Cic. de Or. 3, 11, 40.—

Transf., swelled up, swollen, puffed up:

serpens inflato collo,

Cic. Vatin. 2, 4:

bucca inflatior,

Suet. Rhet. 5:

inflatum hesterno venas Iaccho,

Verg. E. 6, 15:

Volturnus amnis inflatus aquis,

swollen, enlarged, Liv. 23, 19, 4:

amnes,

id. 40, 33, 2:

capilli,

hanging loose, dishevelled, Ov. A. A. 3, 145:

inflata rore non Achaico turba,

Verg. Cat. 7, 2. — Comp.:

vestis inflatior,

Tert. Pall. 4 med. —

Trop.

In gen., puffed up, inflated, haughty, proud:

quibus illi rebus elati et inflati non continebantur,

Cic. Agr. 2, 35, 97:

inflatus et tumens animus,

id. Tusc. 3, 9, 19:

inflata spe atque animis,

id. Mur. 15, 33:

promissis,

id. ib. 24, 49:

laetitia atque insolentia,

id. Phil. 14, 6, 15:

jactatione,

Liv. 29, 37, 9:

assensionibus,

id. 24, 6, 8:

estne quisquam tanto inflatus errore,

Cic. Ac. 2, 36, 116:

opinionibus,

id. Off. 1, 26, 91:

his opinionibus animus,

Liv. 6, 11, 6, 6, 18, 5:

vana spe,

id. 35, 49, 4:

vano nuntio,

id. 24, 32, 3:

successu tantae rei,

id. 37, 12, 4:

legionum numero,

Vell. 2, 80, 2:

superbus et inflatus,

Juv. 8, 72:

elatus inflatusque,

Suet. Ner. 37.— Comp.:

juvenis inflatior,

Liv. 39, 53, 8.—

In partic., of style, inflated, turgid:

Attici pressi et integri, Asiani inflati et inanes,

Quint. 12, 10, 16:

inflatus et tumidus,

Tac. Or. 18:

Callimachus,

Prop. 2, 34 (3, 32), 32; Suet. Rhet. 2.— Hence, adv.: inflātē, only in comp., haughtily, proudly, pompously:

aliquid latius atque inflatius perscribere,

Caes. B. C. 2, 17, 3:

inflatius commemorare,

id. ib. 2, 39, 4:

inflatius multo, quam res erat gesta, fama percrebuerat,

id. ib. 3, 79, 4:

fabulari inflatius,

Amm. 22, 16, 10.

in-flŭo, xi, xum, 3, v. n., to flow or run into.

Lit.:

Hypanis in Pontum influit,

Cic. Tusc. 1, 39, 94:

in quem sanguis a jecore per venam illam cavam influit,

id. N. D. 2, 55, 138:

lacus qui in flumen Rhodanum influit,

Caes. B. G. 1, 8; 3, 9, 1:

palus influit in Sequanam flumen,

id. ib. 7, 57.— With the simple acc.:

Oceanum,

Plin. 6, 24, 28, § 108.—With adv. of place:

non longe a mari, quo Rhenus influit,

Caes. B. G. 4, 1:

huc Lycus, huc Sagaris influit,

Ov. P. 4, 10, 48:

influentes capilli,

flowing down, hanging loose, Cels. 6, 1.— Absol.:

amnis influens,

Plin. 6, 7, 7, § 19.—

Transf., of things not fluid, to flow, stream, rush, or press into:

influentes in Italiam Gallorum copiae,

Cic. Prov. Cons. 13, 32:

influxisse eo Scythas,

Plin. 6, 7, 7, § 22; cf.:

influentibus negotiis,

Plin. Pan. 81:

influens atque effluens divinus animus tamquam influere possumus,

Cic. Univ. 13: in universorum animos, steal into, insinuate one ' s self into, id. Off. 2, 9, 31:

in aures,

id. Lael. 25, 96:

oratio quam maxime in sensus eorum qui audiunt influat,

id. de Or. 3, 24, 91:

in animos teneros atque molles,

id. Leg. 2, 15, 38:

sermone Graeco in proximas Asiae civitates influente,

Quint. 12, 10, 16:

aliquid ex illa lenitate ad hanc vim acerrimam,

Cic. de Or. 2, 53, 212:

quis influentis dona fortunae abnuit,

overflowing, abounding, Sen. Thyest. 536.