Lewis & Short

perspergo, ĕre, v. a. [per-spargo], to besprinkle, to wet.

  1. 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.
  2. II. Trop.: orationem tamquam sale, Cic. de Or. 1, 34, 159.