ex-spătĭor (exp-), ātus, 1
* V. dep. n., to wander from the course, go out of the way; to spread out, extend; to digress, expatiate (poet. and in post-Aug. prose).
* Lit.: exspatiantur equi,Ov. M. 2, 202; cf. id. ib. 15, 454: exspatiata ruunt per apertos flumina campos,id. ib. 1, 285: ignes in auras,Sil. 17, 95: arbores latissima umbra exspatiantes,Plin. 16, 30, 53, § 124: tecta,id. 3, 5, 9: brachium in latus,Quint. 11, 3, 84.
* Trop.: finis non erit, si exspatiari parte in hac et indulgere voluptati velim,enlarge on this head,Quint. 2, 17, 1: (juvenes) ut exspatientur,id. 2, 10, 5: hoc exspatiandi genus,id. 4, 3, 4.

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