(verb) : ex-spīro (expīro), āvi, ātum, 1, and n. (mostly poet. and in post-Aug. prose; not in Cic. and Caes.).
* Act., to breathe out, to emit, to blow out, to exhale, give out: animam pulmonibus, Lucil. ap. Non. 38, 27: animam medios in ignes,Ov. M. 5, 106: auras,id. ib. 3, 121: flumen sanguinis de pectore,Lucr. 2, 354; cf.: flammas pectore,Verg. A. 1, 44: odorem de corpore,Lucr. 4, 124: sonos per saxa (unda),Sil. 9, 285: colorem (uniones),Plin. 9, 35, 56, § 115.
* Poet. transf.: cadavera vermes,i. e. send forth, produce,Lucr. 3, 720: silva comas tollit fructumque exspirat in umbras,i. e. spreads out into foliage,Stat. S. 5, 2, 70.
* Neutr.
* To rush forth, come forth, be exhaled.
* Lit.: ut per singulos artus exspiraret,Sall. H. 1, 30 Dietsch.: atram tundit humum exspirans,Verg. A. 10, 731: ubi perire jussus exspiravero,Hor. Epod. 5, 91: inter primam curationem exspiravit,Liv. 2, 20, 9: inter verbera et vincula,id. 28, 19, 12: extremus exspirantis hiatus,Quint. 6, 2, 31; 9, 2, 73; Sen. Ep. 99, 27; Curt. 3, 5, 4; Suet. Tib. 21; id. Claud. 23; Val. Max. 4, 5, 6; Plin. 7, 36, 36, § 122.— Pass. impers.: quoniam membranā cerebri incisā statim exspiretur,Plin. 11, 37, 67, § 178: exspiravit aper dentibus apri,Juv. 15, 162.
* To breathe one's last, to expire.
* Trop., to expire, perish, come to an end, cease: si ego morerer, mecum exspiratura res publica erat,Liv. 28, 28, 11: libertate jam exspirante,Plin. Pan. 57, 4: ne res publica exspiraret,Val. Max. 3, 2, 18: criminis causa exspirat,becomes extinct, ceases,Dig. 48, 17, 1 fin.; 24, 3, 19: prior obligatio,ib. 45, 1, 58.

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