[1643] perspergo, ere (per u. spargo), besprengen, bestreuen, benetzen, ligna amurcā crudā, Cato r. r. 130: unde haustā aquā templum et simulacrum deae perspersum est, Tac. ann. 15, 44: Prusiadem urbem alluit Hylas flumen [1643] et perspergit Hylas lacus, Solin. 42, 2. – bildl., facetiarum quidam lepos, quo tamquam sale perspergatur omnis oratio, Cic. de or. 1, 159 (C. F. W. Müller liest perspargatur).