“Aeole, namque tibī dīvom pater atque hominum rēx et mulcēre dedit flūctūs et tollere ventō.”
“Oh Aeolus, for indeed to you the Father of the Gods and King of Men granted [the power] both to calm the waves and to stir [them] up with wind.” (Juno is speaking to Aeolus (son of Hippotes) about the power granted him by Jupiter. Note: Here, “divom” is a syncopated form of divorum, “of the gods”.)
“fluctus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
“fluctus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
fluctus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
fluctus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London:Macmillan and Co.
tossed hither and thither by the waves: fluctibus iactari
to be engulfed: fluctibus (undis) obrui,submergi
to enter the whirlpool of political strife: se civilibus fluctibus committere
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