flūmen inis, n FLV-, a flowing, flood, stream, running water: rapidus montano flumine torrens V.: languidum, H.: vivo perfundi flumine, L. secundo flumine iter facere, down stream, Cs.: adverso flumine proficisci, up stream, Cs.: flumina fontis, O.: a labris sitiens fugientia captat Flumina, H.: Scamandri flumina, H.

—A river: ut flumina in contrarias partīs fluxerint: moratus ad flumen, Cs.: flumen est Arar, quod, etc., Cs.: Tanain prope flumen orti, H.: Tiberinum, V.: Himellae, V.

—Person., a river, river-god: Conveniunt flumina, O.: flumine Gange Edita, O.

—A stream, flood: umectat flumine voltum, of tears, V.: pressis manabunt flumina mammis, of milk, V.: lactis, nectaris, O.

—Fig., a flow, fluency, stream, affluence: ingeni: orationis.