I. To pour to, upon, or into, to sprinkle or scatter on (poet. and in post-Aug. prose).
A. Lit.: “adfusa eis aqua calida,” Plin. 12, 21, 46, § 102: “adfuso vino,” id. 28, 9, 38, § 144; cf. id. 16, 44, 91, § 242: “Rhenum Oceano,” Tac. H. 5, 23: “adfundere alicui venenum in aquā frigidā,” id. A. 13, 16.—Hence: “amnis adfusus oppidis,” that flows by, Plin. 5, 29, 31; and: “oppidum adfusum amne,” washed by a river, id. 3, 3, 4, § 24.—
B. Trop., to add to, to send or despatch to some place in haste: “equorum tria milia cornibus adfunderentur,” Tac. Agr. 35: “adfundere vitam alicui,” to give life, vitality, to, id. A. 6, 28.—
II. Adfundere se or adfundi, poet., to cast one's self to the ground: adfusa (stretched out, prostrate) poscere vitam, Ov. M. 9, 605: “adfusaeque jacent tumulo,” prostrate upon the tomb, id. ib. 8, 539; so Stat. Th. 686.—In prose: “Cleopatra adfusa genibus Caesaris,” throwing herself at, Flor. 4, 2.
