(verb) : ventĭlo, āvi, ātum, 1, ventulus
* To toss, swing, brandish in the air; to fan.
* Lit.
* In gen.: facem,Prop. 4 (5), 3, 50. arma,Mart. 5, 31, 4: aureos nummos manu,App. M. 2, p. 126, 14.—Absol.: quam stultum est, cum signum pugnae acceperis, ventilare!Sen. Ep. 117, 25: aliud est pugnare, aliud ventilare,id. Excerpt. Contr. 3 praef. med.: cubitum utrumque in diversum latus,Quint. 11, 3, 118: populeas ventilat aura comas,fans, sways, agitates,Ov. Am. 1, 7, 54: incendia (flatus),i. e. to fan, inflame, kindle,Sil. 17, 507: frigus, fans coolness upon him, i. e. cools him with fanning, Mart. 3, 82, 10.—Absol.: aestate apertis foribus atque etiam aliquo ventilante cubabat,Suet. Aug. 82: ventilat aestivum digitis sudantibus aurum, i. e. tosses to and fro (as it were) in order to cool it, Juv. 1, 28: alis,Claud. in Eutr. 1, 109.—Mid.: alio atque alio positu ventilari,to move one's self,Sen. Tranq. 2, 10.
* Trop., to set in motion, to move, disturo, agitate, disquiet: cujus lingua quasi flabello seditionis illa tum est egentium contio ventilata, * Cic. Fl. 23, 54: nomen alicujus pro tribunalibus,i. e. to bring forward,App. Mag. p. 337, 30: vitam insontium Manibus accitis, Cod. Th. 9, 16, 5; Cod. Just. 9, 18, 6.