I.to besprinkle, to wet.
I. Lit.: “ligna amureā crudā perspergito,” Cato, R. R. 130: “unde haustā aquā templum deae perspersum est,” Tac. A. 15, 44: “Prusiadem urbem perspergit Hylas lacus,” Sol. 42, 2.—
II. Trop.: “orationem tamquam sale,” Cic. de Or. 1, 34, 159.