epiphora

A New Latin Dictionary by Charlton T. Lewis Ph.D. and Charles Short, LL. D.

ĕpĭphŏra, ae, f., = ἐπιφορά.

I An afflux; as a disease, a defluxion of humors , Col. 6, 17, 8; Plin. 20, 9, 40, § 103; 29, 6, 38, § 118 al. (in Cic. Fam. 16, 23, written as Greek).—

II As a rhet. fig., a repetition , Rufin. de Fig. 1, 8, p. 30.

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