I.to flow or run back; to flow off, overflow (poet. and in post-Aug. prose): “Maeandros ambiguo lapsu refluitque fluitque,” Ov. M. 8, 163: “refluit amnis,” Verg. A. 8, 240; cf. “unda,” id. ib. 8, 87; id. G. 4, 262: “Nilus campis,” id. A. 9, 32. — “Of the tide,” Plin. 2, 97, 99, § 213.
rĕ-flŭo , ĕre, v. n.,