flŭentum, i, n. [fluo], a flow, flood; in concr., running water, a stream, river.
I 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., Ap. Deo Socr. p. 52; Aus. Mos. 10, 59; Avien. Perieg. 32; Prud. στεφ. 12, 32.—Of milk : tonans (Juppiter) suxit fluenta mammarum, Arn. 4, 141.—
II 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.