a stream of fire

flŭentum, i, n. [fluo], a flow, flood; in concr., running water, a stream, river.

Lit. ( poet. and in post-class. prose; usually in plur.):

fluenta Lubrica,

Lucr. 5, 949:

Xanthi,

Verg. A. 4, 143:

rauca (Cocyti),

id. ib. 6, 327:

Tiberina,

id. ib. 12, 35: cum inter fluenta tibiis fidibusque concineret, i. e. by the Euripus, Flor. 2, 8, 9:

Jordanis,

Vulg. Num. 13, 30.—In sing., App. de Deo Socr. p. 52; Aus. Mos. 10, 59; Avien. Perieg. 32; Prud. steph. 12, 32.—Of milk:

tonans (Juppiter) suxit fluenta mammarum,

Arn. 4, 141.—

Transf., a stream of fire (cf. fluctus, II. A. 2.): flammarum, App. de Mundo, p. 73 (shortly before, flumina); a stream or current of air, Lucr. 5, 278; al. fluenteis for fluentis.

fluctus, ūs (ante-class. form of the gen. sing. fluctuis, Varr. and Nigid. ap. Gell. 4, 16, 1; nom. plur. flucti, Pac. and Att. ap. Non. 488, 12), m. [fluo; cf. fluctio], the peculiar motion of fluids, a flowing, waving.

In abstr. (rare; cf.:

unda, fluentum): jactetur aquae fluctu quoque terra vacillans,

Lucr. 6, 554 sq. —Of the flowing motion of the magnetic fluid (v. aestus):

Cogitur offensare pulsareque fluctu Ferrea texta suo,

Lucr. 6, 1053.—In mal. part., Lucr. 4, 1271; cf. fluctuo, I. a fin. —

Transf., a flow, flood. —In concr., a wave, billow, surge, esp. of the sea (the predom. signif. of the word in prose and poetry; esp. freq. in the plur.).

Sing.: fons aquae dulcis, qui fluctu totus operiretur, nisi, etc., the flood, i. e. high tide, Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 53, § 118: alia fluctus differt, dissipat visceratim membra, Maria salsa spumant sanguine, Enn. ap. Non. 183, 18 (Trag. v. 144 ed. Vahl.):

ab saxo avortit fluctus ad litus scapham,

Plaut. Rud. 1, 2, 76; 82:

fluctum a saxo frangi,

Cic. Fam. 9, 16, 6:

fluctus uti... volutus Ad terras immane sonat per saxa,

Verg. G. 3, 237:

ad fluctum aiunt declamare solitum Demosthenem, ut fremitum assuesceret voce vincere,

to the waves, Cic. Fin. 5, 2, 5.—

Plur.: indu mari magno fluctus extollere certant, Enn. ap. Macr. S. 6, 2 (Ann. v. 425 ed. Vahl.): mulserat huc navim compulsam fluctibus pontus, id. ap. Prisc. p. 870 P. (Ann. v. 257 ed. Vahl.):

excitatis maximis fluctibus,

Cic. Rep. 1, 6:

(insulae) fluctibus cinctae,

id. ib. 2, 4; cf.:

Massilia, quae cincta Gallorum gentibus barbariae fluctibus alluitur,

id. Fl. 26, 63:

sese fluctibus committere,

id. Verr. 2, 2, 37, § 91:

sedatis fluctibus,

id. Inv. 2, 51, 154:

puppes ad magnitudinem fluctuum tempestatumque accommodatae,

Caes. B. G. 3, 13, 3:

in fluctibus consistere,

id. ib. 4, 24, 2:

fluctibus compleri,

id. ib. 4, 28 fin.:

luctantem Icariis fluctibus Africum Mercator metuens,

Hor. C. 1, 1, 15:

o navis, referent in mare te novi Fluctus,

id. ib. 1, 14, 2:

mulcere fluctus et tollere vento,

Verg. A. 1, 66:

procella... fluctus ad sidera tollit,

id. ib. 1, 103:

revomere salsos fluctus pectore,

id. ib. 5, 182.—Prov.: excitare fluctus in simpulo, to raise a tempest in a tea-pot, i. e. to make much ado about nothing, Cic. Leg. 3, 16, 36.—

Poet. transf., a stream of odors:

unde fluens volvat varius se fluctus odorum,

Lucr. 4, 675.—And of a stream of fire:

atro volvens incendia fluctu,

Val. Fl. 7, 572.—

Trop., like tempestas and unda, and our waves or billows, for turbulence, commotion, disturbance:

qui in hac tempestate populi jactemur et fluctibus,

Cic. Planc. 4, 11; cf.

contionum,

id. Mil. 2, 5:

rerum Fluctibus in mediis,

Hor. Ep. 2, 2, 85; cf. also Lucr. 5, 11:

hoc omne tempus post consulatum objecimus iis fluctibus, qui per nos a communi peste depulsi, in nosmet ipsos redundarunt,

Cic. de Or. 1, 1, 3; id. Att. 8, 3, 5:

fluctus civiles,

Nep. Att. 6:

capere irarum fluctus in pectore,

Lucr. 3, 298; so,

irarum,

id. 6, 74; Verg. A. 12, 831; Val. Max. 9, 3 init.:

tristes curarum,

Lucr. 6, 34:

belli,

id. 5, 1290.

aestus, ūs (archaic gen. aesti, Pac. 97 Rib.; rare form of nom. plur. aestuus). m. [kind. with aestas and Gr. aithô; v. aestas], an undulating, boiling, waving, tossing; a waving, heaving, billowy motion.

Lit.

Of fire; hence, in gen., fire, glow, heat (orig. in relation to its flashing up; while fervor denotes a glowing, ardor a burning, and calor a warming heat; yet it was early used for warming heat;

v. the following example): nam fretus ipse anni permiscet frigus et aestum,

heat and cold are blended, Lucr. 6, 364 (for which calor, id. 6, 368, 371 al.):

multa aestu victa per agros,

id. 5, 1104:

exsuperant flammae, furit aestus ad auras,

Verg. A. 2, 759:

caniculae,

Hor. C. 1, 17, 18; so id. Ep. 1, 8, 5:

labore et aestu languidus,

Sall. J. 51.—In plur.:

neque frigora neque aestus facile tolerabat,

Suet. Aug. 81.—So of midday heat:

aestibus at mediis umbrosam exquirere vallem,

Verg. G. 3, 331 (cf. Cic. Ac. 2, 22: ille cum aestuaret, umbram secutus est).—And of the heat of disease (of [p. 63] wounds, fever, inflammation, etc.): ulceris aestus, Att. ap. Cic. Tusc. 2, 7, 19:

homines aegri cum aestu febrique jactantur,

Cic. Cat. 1, 13.—

The undulating, heaving motion of the sea, the swell, surge: fervet aestu pelagus, Pac. ap. Cic. de Or. 3, 39; hence, meton. for the sea in agitation, waves, billows:

delphines aestum secabant,

Verg. A. 8, 674:

furit aestus harenis,

id. ib. 1, 107:

aestus totos campos inundaverant,

Curt. 9, 9, 18.—In Verg. once of the boiling up of water in a vessel: exsultant aestu latices, Aen. 7, 464.—

Esp., the periodical flux and reflux or ebb and flow of the sea, the tide (cf. Varr. L. L. 9, 19; Mel. 3, 1:

aestus maris accedere et reciprocare maxime mirum, pluribus quidem modis, sed causa in sole lunāque,

Plin. 2, 97, 99); Plaut. As. 1, 3, 6: quid de fretis aut de marinis aestibus dicam? quorum accessus et recessus ( flow and ebb) lunae motu gubernantur, Cic. Div. 2, 14 fin.:

crescens,

Plin. 2, 100, 97, § 219:

decedens,

id. ib.:

recedens,

id. 2, 98, 101, § 220: secundus, in our favor, Sall. Fragm. ap. Gell. 10, 26, 2: adversus, against us, id. ap. Non. 138, 8.—

Trop.

The passionate ferment or commotion of the mind, the fire, glow, ardor of any ( even a good) passion (cf. aestuo, II. A.):

et belli magnos commovit funditus aestus (genus humanum),

has stirred up from their very bottom the waves of discord, Lucr. 5, 1434:

civilis belli aestus,

Hor. Ep. 2, 2, 47 (cf. id. C. 2, 7, 15):

repente te quasi quidam aestus ingenii tui procul a terrā abripuit atque in altum abstraxit,

Cic. de Or. 3, 36:

hunc absorbuit aestus quidam gloriae,

id. Brut. 81:

stultorum regum et populorum continet aestus,

Hor. Ep. 1, 2, 8:

perstet et, ut pelagi, sic pectoris adjuvet aestum,

the glow of love, Ov. H. 16, 25.—

A vacillating, irresolute state of mind, doubt, uncertainty, hesitation, trouble, embarrassment, anxiely:

qui tibi aestus, qui error, quae tenebrae,

Cic. Div. in Caecin. 14:

vario fluctuat aestu,

Verg. A. 12, 486:

amor magno irarum fluctuat aestu,

id. ib. 4, 532; cf. id. ib. 8, 19:

aestus curaeque graves,

Hor. S. 1, 2, 110.—

In the Epicurean philos. lang. of Lucretius, the undulatory flow or stream of atoms, atomic efflux, as the cause of perception (cf. affluo, I.):

Perpetuoque fluunt certis ab rebus odores, Frigus ut a fluviis, calor ab sole, aestus ab undis Aequoris, exesor moerorum litora propter, etc.,

Lucr. 6, 926; and in id. 6, 1002 sq., the magnetic fluid is several times designated by aestus lapidis.

unda, ae, f. [Sanscr. root ud-, und-, to be wet; whence, uda, water; Angl. -Sax. ydhu, wave; Slav. voda, water; Gr. hudôr, huades; Goth. vatō, water], a wave, billow, surge (syn. fluctus).

Lit.:

mare plenum undarum,

Plaut. Mil. 2, 6, 33: unda, cum est pulsa remis, purpurascit, Cic. Fragm. ap. Non. 162, 30:

via, quae fert Acherontis ad undas,

Verg. A. 6, 295; Lucr. 1, 374; 1, 380; 3, 494; Hor. C. 1, 12, 32; 4, 14, 20; id. Ep. 2, 2, 176; Ov. M. 1, 570.—

Collect.: prora remissa subito navem undae adfligebat,

Liv. 24, 34, 11.—

Transf.

In gen.

Water, moisture (mostly poet.; cf.:

aqua, lympha): (Proteus) flumen eras, interdum undis contrarius ignis,

Ov. M. 8, 737:

fontis in undā,

id. ib. 4, 98; cf.:

fons tenui perlucidus undā,

id. ib. 3, 161:

(Noti) canis fluit unda capillis,

id. ib. 1, 266:

nivales,

snow-water, Mart. 14, 118, 1: ignem Pollux undamque jugalem Praetulit, fire and water, as symbols of housekeeping, Val. Fl. 8, 245, hence, faciunt justos ignis et unda viros, i. e. real, proper husbands, Ov. A. A. 2, 598.—

A fluid, liquid. manans naribus unda Sangninis, Sil. 10, 245:

preli,

i. e. oil, Plin. 15, 1, 2, § 5:

croci,

Mart. 8, 33. 4;

13, 40, 1.—Cf the lava from Ætna,

Lucil. Aet. 303.—

Of wavelike things ( poet.): aëriae, i. e. the air, Lucr. [p. 1930] 2, 152:

quā plurimus undam Fumus agit,

Verg. A. 8, 257.—Of a lion's mane, Mart. 8, 55, 10.—

In architecture, for the Gr. cymatium (kumation, a little wave), a talon, ogee, Vitr. 5, 7.—

Trop., of the wavelike agitation of a multitude, etc., a surge, billow, stream, tide, = aestus:

campus atque illae undae comitiorum,

Cic. Planc. 6, 15:

nunc agilis fio et mersor civilibus undis,

Hor. Ep. 1, 1, 16:

adversis rerum immersabilis undis,

id. ib. 1, 2, 22:

curarum,

Cat. 64, 62:

bellorum,

Claud. in Eutr. 2, 507:

salutantūm unda,

a stream, crowd, throng, Verg. G. 2, 462; so,

undae Boiorum,

Sil. 4, 159.

stagnum, i, n. [cf. Gr. tenagos = vadum].

Lit., a piece of standing water (whether permanent or formed by the overflowing of a stream], a pool, pond, swamp, fen, etc. (cf.: lacus, palus): propter stagna, ubi lanigerum pecus piscibus pascit, Enn. ap. Paul. ex Fest. p. 59 Müll. (Sat. v. 42 Vahl.):

super ripas Tiberis effusus lenibus stagnis,

Liv. 1, 4, 4; cf. Varr. ap. Non. 217, 2 (as an example for stativae aquae); Cic. poët. Div. 1, 9; Auct. ap. Cic. Agr. 3, 2, 7; Tib. 1, 3, 77; Verg. A. 6, 323:

undique latius Extenta Lucrino Stagna lacu,

Hor. C. 2, 15, 4:

immensa stagna lacusque,

Ov. M. 1, 38; Liv. 26, 48, 4 al.—

Poet., transf., waters in gen.: hiemem sensit Neptunus et imis Stagna refusa vadis. Verg. A. 1, 126:

Nerei Stagna,

id. ib. 10, 764:

rubri stagna profundi,

Luc. 8, 853; cf. Sil. 7, 282:

stagna tepentis aquae,

Prop. 3, 18 (4, 17), 2:

Phrixeae stagna sororis,

i. e. the Hellespont, Ov. F. 4, 278:

Euripi,

id. P. 1, 8, 38:

stagnum ignis,

a lake of fire, Vulg. Apoc. 19, 20; 20, 10.

stagnum, = stannum, whence 2. stagno, and the orthog. stagneus, for stanneus.