perluo

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

per-lŭo (pelluo, Front. Ep. ad M. Caes. 4), ŭi, ūtum, 3, v. a.,

to wash off , to wash bathe , lave : manus undā, Ov. F. 5, 435: aliquid aquā marinā, Col. 12, 20, 3: aedem madentibus pennis, Plin. 10, 44, 61, § 127: sitientes artus, Petr. 120: sudor perluit ora, id. 123.— Pass. , to wash one's self , to bathe : perluitur solitā Titania lympha, Ov. M. 3, 173: in fluminibus perluuntur, Caes. B. G. 6, 20; Hor. Ep. 1, 15, 4 (in Ap. Met. 2, 32, 29 Oud., read diffluens).

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