per-lŭo (pelluo, Front. Ep. ad M. Caes. 4), ŭi, ūtum, 3, v. a., to wash off, to wash bathe, lave: manus undā, Ov. F. 5, 435: aliquid aquā marinā, Col. 12, 20, 3: aedem madentibus pennis, Plin. 10, 44, 61, § 127: sitientes artus, Petr. 120: sudor perluit ora, id. 123.
Pass., to wash one’s self, to bathe: perluitur solitā Titania lympha, Ov. M. 3, 173: in fluminibus perluuntur, Caes. B. G. 6, 20; Hor. Ep. 1, 15, 4 (in App. M. 2, 30, p. 166 Oud., read diffluens).