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Liv., v. 13, 12. Nec ita multo post jam palantes veluti forte oblati populatores Capenatis agri reliquias pugnae absumpsere. And not long after the foragers, that wasted the lands of the Capenates, as they ranged abroad here and there, encountered the residue and remnant of this battail. (Phil. Holland.) Liv., ix. 31, 7. Transfugae agrestes … oblati. Liv., ii. 14, 8. Inermes et fortuna et specie supplicum delati sunt. Were fain to trudge to Rome. (Phil. Holland.) So also Liv., v. 45, 3. Tac., Ann. ii. 17. Simul pedestris acies infertur. Liv., xxii. 55, 9. Simul latebras eorum improvida praeterlata acies est. Cf. also Caes., G. vi. 42 ad fin. Virg., Aen. vii. 217: afferimur. Lucr., i. 207. Flecti. Tac., Ann. i. 16. Aut flexo in vesperam die. At nightfall; as daylight turns to eventide. Cf. Lewis and Short, s.v. Frangi. Lucr. iii. 155. Corpore; et infringi linguam vocemque aboriri. The tongue falter, the voice die away. (Monro.) Cf. κὰμ μ∊̀ν γλω̑σσα ∊ἔαγ∊. Fundi. Tac., Ann. i. 23. Alii ad quaerendum corpus effunderentur. Tac., Ann. i. 11. At patres in questus, lacrimas, vota effundi. Caes. G. vi. 26. Ab ejus summo sicut palmae, rami quam late diffunduntur. In these passages the reflexive force of the verb is very clear: they scatter about to search for the body; they dissolve into tears and plaints; the horns spread themselves out like palm-branches. Virg., Georg. ii. 510. Gaudent perfusi sanguine fratrum. They revel as they wallow in their kinsmen's blood. Cf. also Caes., G. vi. 37; Ovid, Met. i. 36, diffundi; Ovid, Met. i. 484, suffunditur; Virg., Aen. vi. 307, funduntur; Lucr., i. 39; Lucr., i. 353; Ovid, Fast. i. 215. So cruore suffunduntur oculi—the eyes become bloodshot. Lacrimis