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efflo
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Lewis Short
(verb) : ef-flo, āvi, ātum, 1, and n.
* To blow or breathe out (mostly poet. and post-Aug. prose).
* Act.
* In gen.: (Sol) suos efflavit ignes,Lucr. 5, 652; cf.: ignes Aetnaeos faucibus,Verg. A. 7, 786: ignes ore et naribus,Ov. M. 2, 85: lucem elatis naribus (equi solis),Verg. A. 12, 115: mare patulis naribus,Ov. M. 3, 686; cf.: nimbos in sublime (balaenae),Plin. 9, 6, 6, § 16: pulverem,id. 29, 6, 39, § 138: vina somno,Stat. Th. 5, 209: omnem colorem,i. e. to lose,Lucr. 2, 833 et saep.: bestiolae si efflantur (vento),Varr. R. R. 1, 12, 2.
* Neutr. (very seldom): flamma,Lucr. 6, 681; 699; Stat. Th. 10, 109; Ven. Fort. 4, 26, 128.
* Transf. *
* Of wounds: efflantes plagae,deadly, which let out life,Stat. Th. 8, 168.
* With an obj. acc. and inf., to say with one's last breath: quam verum est, quod moriens (Brutus) efflavit, non in re, sed in verbo tantum esse virtutem,Flor. 4, 7, 11.
* To blow or breathe out (mostly poet. and post-Aug. prose).
* Act.
* In gen.: (Sol) suos efflavit ignes,Lucr. 5, 652; cf.: ignes Aetnaeos faucibus,Verg. A. 7, 786: ignes ore et naribus,Ov. M. 2, 85: lucem elatis naribus (equi solis),Verg. A. 12, 115: mare patulis naribus,Ov. M. 3, 686; cf.: nimbos in sublime (balaenae),Plin. 9, 6, 6, § 16: pulverem,id. 29, 6, 39, § 138: vina somno,Stat. Th. 5, 209: omnem colorem,i. e. to lose,Lucr. 2, 833 et saep.: bestiolae si efflantur (vento),Varr. R. R. 1, 12, 2.
* Neutr. (very seldom): flamma,Lucr. 6, 681; 699; Stat. Th. 10, 109; Ven. Fort. 4, 26, 128.
* Transf. *
* Of wounds: efflantes plagae,deadly, which let out life,Stat. Th. 8, 168.
* With an obj. acc. and inf., to say with one's last breath: quam verum est, quod moriens (Brutus) efflavit, non in re, sed in verbo tantum esse virtutem,Flor. 4, 7, 11.
Charlton T. Lewis, Charles Short, A Latin Dictionary
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