verb intransitive

rĕ-flŭo

2nd PP rĕ-fluĕre · conj. 3rd

to flow; run back;; to flow off poetic ••

to flow or run back; to flow off, overflow (poet. and in post-Aug. prose): Maeandros ambiguo lapsu refluitque fluitque, Ov. M. 8, 163: refluit amnis, Verg. A. 8, 240; cf. unda, id. ib. 8, 87; id. G. 4, 262: Nilus campis, id. A. 9, 32. — Of the tide, Plin. 2, 97, 99, § 213.

Perseus ID: n40818 Key: refluo