af-fundo (better adf-), ūdi, ūsum, 3, v. a. To pour to, upon, or into, to sprinkle or scatter on (poet. and in post-Aug. prose). Lit.: adfusa eis aqua calida, Plin. 12, 21, 46, § 102: adfuso vino, id. 28, 9, 38, § 144; cf. id. 16, 44, 91, § 242: Rhenum Oceano, Tac. H. 5, 23: adfundere alicui venenum in aquā frigidā, id. A. 13, 16.—Hence: amnis adfusus oppidis, that flows by, Plin. 5, 29, 31; and: oppidum adfusum amne, washed by a river, id. 3, 3, 4, § 24.— Trop., to add to, to send or despatch to some place in haste: equorum tria milia cornibus adfunderentur, Tac. Agr. 35: adfundere vitam alicui, to give life, vitality, to, id. A. 6, 28.— Adfundere se or adfundi, poet., to cast one's self to the ground: adfusa (stretched out, prostrate) poscere vitam, Ov. M. 9, 605: adfusaeque jacent tumulo, prostrate upon the tomb, id. ib. 8, 539; so Stat. Th. 686.—In prose: Cleopatra adfusa genibus Caesaris, throwing herself at, Flor. 4, 2.