proluvies

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

prōlŭvĭes, ēi, f. [proluo],

an overflow , inundation (class.): Romae et maxime Appia ad Martis mira proluvies, Cic. Q. Fr. 3, 7, 1 (Bait.); Lucr. 5, 950: alvi, i. e. filth cast forth , excrements , id. 6, 1200; Col. 6, 7, 1; 12, 38, 1: foedissima ventris, Verg. A. 3, 217.

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