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ef-flo, āvi, ātum, 1, v. a. and n., to blow or breathe out (mostly poet. and post-Aug. prose).

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.—

Esp. freq.:

animam,

to breathe out one's life, to expire, Cic. Tusc. 1, 9 fin.; Plaut. Pers. 4, 4, 86:

a milite omnis spes,

id. Truc. 4, 4, 23; Cic. Mil. 18 fin.; Nep. Paus. 5, 4; Suet. Dom. 2; id. Aug. 99;

for which also: extremum halitum, Cic. poët. Tusc. 2, 9, 22: vitam in nubila,

Sil. 17, 557; and absol.: (anguem) Abicit efflantem, Cic. poët. Div. 1, 47, 106.—

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.—

Neutr. (very seldom):

flamma,

Lucr. 6, 681; 699; Stat. Th. 10, 109; Ven. Fort. 4, 26, 128.