I.an overflowing, inundating, inundation (postAug.): “fluminum,” Col. 3, 11, 8: “coërcere,” Suet. Aug. 30: “inundationes Tiberis,” id. Oth. 8: “Nili,” Plin. Pan. 30 fin.; Cassiod. Var. 3, 42: “terrarum,” the deluge, Plin. 5, 13, 14, § 69; Sol. 34, 1. —
II. Transf., of a crowd of people, Schol. Juv. 3, 249.— “Of horses: inundatione equorum ejus operiet te pulvis,” Vulg. Ezech. 26, 10.—Of troubles, sorrow, Vulg. Job, 21, 17.