perspergo

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

perspergo, ĕre, v. a. [per-spargo], to besprinkle, to wet.

I Lit.: ligna amureā crudā perspergito, Cato R. R. 130: unde haustā aquā templum deae perspersum est, Tac. A. 15, 44: Prusiadem urbem perspergit Hylas lacus, Sol. 42, 2.—

II Trop.: orationem tamquam sale, Cic. de Or. 1, 34, 159.

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