I.flowing, fluid, moist (mostly poet. and in post-Aug. prose; not in Cic. or Caes.).
I. Lit.: “corpus,” Lucr. 2, 452: “quid tam contrarium est quam terrenum fluido?” Col. 8, 16, 1: “liquor,” Verg. G. 3, 484: “cruor,” id. A. 3, 663; Ov. M. 4, 482; cf.: “aspiciam fluidos humano sanguine rictus,” id. ib. 14, 168: “alvus,” Ser. Samm. 29 fin.—
II. Transf.
A. In opposition to solid or firm, soft, slack, lax, languid (syn.: “fluxus, languidus): lacerti,” Ov. M. 15, 231; cf.: “labor et aestus mollia et fluida Gallorum corpora decedere pugna coëgit,” Liv. 34, 47, 5: “caro,” Plin. 9, 30, 50, § 95: “vestis,” flowing, loose, Just. 41, 2; Sen. Oed. 422.—*
B. Act., dissolving: “calor,” Ov. M. 15, 362.
