I.to drip or trickle down, to distil (not in Cic.).
I. Prop.: lentum destillat ab inguine virus, * Verg. G. 3, 281; cf.: “ex athere,” Sen. Q. N. 2, 12: “de capite in nares humor (from a cold),” Cels. 4, 2, 4: “nubes distillaverunt aquis,” Vulg. Judic. 5, 4 al.—
II. Transf.: “tempora nardo,” to drop, distil, Tib. 2, 2, 7; cf.: “destillante arboribus odore mirae suavitatis,” Plin. 6, 31, 36, § 198.
