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rîvus, i, m. [root ri- (li-), to flow, drop; Gr. limnê; cf. liris; Sanscr. rîna, flowing; cf. ripa], a small stream of water, a brook (cf.: fluvius, amnis).

I. Lit.: rivus est locus per longitudinem depressus, quo aqua decurrat, cui nomen est apo toû rheîn, Dig. 43, 21 (de rivis), 1: rivorum a fonte deductio, Cic. Top. 8, 33: prostrati in gramine molli Propter aquae rivum, by a waterbrook, Lucr. 2, 30; so, aquae, id. 5, 1392; Hor. C. 3.16.29; cf. Inscr. Orell. 51: omnia flumina atque omnes rivos, qui ad mare pertinebant, etc., Caes. B. C. 3, 49; 3, 37; cf. 3, 88 fin.; Hor. Ep. 1, 10, 7: pronus, id. ib. 1, 10, 21; id. C. 1.29.11: mobiles, id. ib. 1.7.14; cf. celeres, id. ib. 3.11.14: gelidi, id. ib. 3.13.7; id. Ep. 1, 18, 104: claudite jam rivos, Verg. E. 3.111: tenuis fugiens per gramina rivus, id. G. 4.19.--Prov.: e rivo flumina magna facere, to magnify an insignificant object; or, as we say, to make a mountain of a mole-hill, Ov. P. 2, 5, 22.--

B. Transf.

1. An artificial water-course, channel, canal, Dig. 7, 1, 61; 8, 3, 15; 8, 4, 11.--

b. A gutter, Vitr. 8, 6 (7), 1 al.--

2. Of other liquids, a stream, etc. (mostly poet.): manabat venis ferventibus argenti rivus et auri, Lucr. 5, 1256: lactis uberes, Hor. C. 2.19.11: sanguinis, Verg. A. 11.668; Liv. 26, 23; Curt. 4, 9, 13: sudoris, Verg. A. 5.200: lacrimarum, Ov. M. 9.655: ignium, Plin. 2, 106, 110, § 236: rivis currentia vina, Verg. G. 1.132.--

II. Trop., a stream (very rare; v. rivulus, II.): liquidus fortunae rivus, Hor. Ep. 1, 12, 9: facundiae rivus, Lact. Opif. Dei, 20 fin.