verb
perspergo
Meaning
- to besprinkle
perspergo, ĕre, v. a. per-spargo,
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.—Charlton Lewis's shorter dictionary for students: the same scholarship in plain, modern definitions.
perspergō —, spersas, ere
per+spargo, to besprinkle, tinge : unde haustā aquā templum perspersum, Ta.—Fig.: quo tamquam sale perspergatur oratio.