verba+exanimata

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ex-ănĭmo, āvi, ātum, 1, v. a.

To deprive of air or wind.

Lit.: folles, i. e. to press together, so as to force out the air, Auct. Aetnae, 560.—

Transf. (in pass.), to be out of breath, weakened, exhausted:

simul fore ut duplicato cursu Caesaris milites exanimarentur et lassitudine conficerentur,

Caes. B. C. 3, 92, 2:

milites cursu ac lassitudine exanimati,

id. B. G. 2, 23, 1; 3, 19, 1; Plaut. As. 2, 1, 17; id. Cas. 3, 5, 8; 3, 3, 10.—

Of impers. or abstr. things, to be weakened:

(vini faex) celerrime exanimatur loco non incluso condita,

loses its strength, Plin. 23, 2, 31, § 64: nolo verba exiliter exanimata exire, with feeble breath, i. e. lifeless, tame, Cic. de Or. 3, 11, 41.—

To deprive of life, to kill (freq. and class.).

Lit.:

telum saepe nocentes Praeterit exanimatque indignos,

Lucr. 2, 1104:

aliquem,

id. 6, 243; Suet. Aug. 29; Curt. 7, 3; Hor. C. 2, 17, 1; cf.:

se taxo,

Caes. B. G. 6, 31 fin. —

In pass., to be deprived of life, be killed, to die:

(Epaminondas) cum gravi vulnere exanimari se videret,

Cic. Fin. 2, 30, 97; cf. Nep. Epam. 9 fin.; so Cic. Tusc. 5, 27, 77; Caes. B. G. 6, 16, 4; Suet. Caes. 39 fin. al.; cf. in the part. perf.:

exanimatus,

killed, dead, Lucr. 6, 1256 (with exanimis); Caes. B. G. 5, 44, 6; 7, 25, 2 and 3; Liv. 9, 1; 25, 7; 22, 7 fin. al. —

Trop., to deprive of life or spirit, to alarm or terrify greatly, to put out of one's senses with fright, horror, etc.; to agitate, trouble:

vorsor in amoris rota miser, Exanimor, feror, differor, distrahor, diripior,

Plaut. Cist. 2, 1, 5:

oratio haec me miseram exanimavit metu,

Ter. And. 1, 5, 16; cf.:

te metus exanimant judiciorum atque legum,

Cic. Par. 2, 18:

Decius torpidos somno insuper pavore exanimat,

Liv. 7, 36:

adolescentulus sic initio accusationis exanimatus sum, ut, etc.,

Cic. de Or. 1, 26, 121:

me exanimant et interimunt hae voces Milonis,

id. Mil. 34, 93:

Tulliae meae morbus et imbecillitas corporis me exanimat,

id. Att. 11, 6, 4:

cur me querelis exanimas (= conturbas, summo maerore afficis) tuis?

Hor. C. 2, 17, 1; cf. id. S. 1, 4, 127; id. Ep. 2, 1, 178 et saep.—In the part. perf.:

exanimata metu,

Ter. Phorm. 3, 3, 32; cf. Cic. Mil. 23; id. Verr. 2, 2, 77; id. Cat. 4, 2: non me fefellit, sensi;

eo exanimatus fui,

Plaut. Bacch. 2, 4, 64; id. Ps. 1, 1, 7; Ter. And. 1, 1, 104; id. Phorm. 5, 1, 5; Verg. A. 5, 805; Stat. Th. 4, 760 al.

ănhēlo, āvi, ātum, 1, v. n. and a. [2. anand halo].

Pr., to move about for breath; hence, to draw the breath with great difficulty, to pant, puff, gasp, etc.:

anhelat inconstanter,

Lucr. 3, 490:

cum languida anhelant,

id. 4, 864: * Ter. Hec. 5, 3, 25: anhelans ex imis pulmonibus prae curā spiritus ducebatur, Auct. ad Her. 4, 33:

anhelans Colla fovet,

Verg. A. 10, 837; 5, 254 al.:

nullus anhelabat sub adunco vomere taurus,

Ov. F. 2, 295:

sudare atque anhelare,

Col. 2, 3, 2.— In gen., to breathe (cf. anhelitus, II.), Prud. Apoth. 919.—

Metaph., of fire:

fornacibus ignis anhelat,

roars, Verg. A. 8, 421.—Of the earth:

subter anhelat humus,

heaves, Stat. S. 1, 1, 56.—Of the foaming of the sea, Sil. 9, 286.— Trop., of poverty panting for something:

anhelans inopia,

Just. 9, 1, 6.—

Verb. act., to breathe out, to emit by breathing, breathe forth, exhale:

nolo verba exiliter exanimata exire, nolo inflata et quasi anhelata gravius,

Cic. de Or. 3, 11, 38: de pectore frigus anhelans Capricornus, vet. poët. ap. Cic. N. D. 2, 44:

anhelati ignes,

Ov. F. 4, 492; so id. H. 12, 15:

rabiem anhelare,

Luc. 6, 92:

anhelatis exsurgens ictibus alnus,

the strokes of the oars made with panting, Sil. 14, 379.— Trop., to pursue, pant for, strive after something with eagerness:

Catilinam furentem audaciā, scelus anhelantem,

breathing out wickedness, Cic. Cat. 2, 1: anhelans ex imo pectore crudelitatem, Auct. ad Her. 4, 55.

II. p. 564, regard the prefix of this word as the Gr. ana; hence, pr. to draw up the breath; cf. antestor.

exīlis, e, adj. [ex and ile, ilia; hence, without entrails, i. e. thin, lank, Corss. Ausspr. 2, 1003], small, thin, slender, lank, meagre, poor, feeble (class.;

syn.: tenuis, gracilis, macer): exile et exiguum et vietum cor,

Cic. Div. 2, 16, 37; cf.:

jecur horridum et exile,

id. ib. 2, 13, 30:

femur (opp. tumentes surae),

Hor. Epod. 8, 10:

artus,

Ov. Pont. 1, 10, 27:

folia,

Plin. 24, 6, 20, § 29:

quod solum tam exile et macrum est, quod, etc.,

thin, poor, Cic. Agr. 2, 25, 67:

ager,

Col. 1, 4, 3; cf.:

Arisbe glebis,

Luc. 3, 204:

exilis domus est, ubi non et multa supersunt, etc.,

poor, wretched, Hor. Ep. 1, 6, 45:

domus Plutonia,

i. e. cheerless, id. C. 1, 4, 17 (cf.:

domus plena,

id. ib. 2, 12, 24):

hereditas (with parva),

Plin. Pan. 40, 1:

via,

short, Ov. Tr. 1, 2, 86.—

Transf.

In gen., meagre, dry, inadequate, etc.:

genus sermonis exile, aridum, concisum ac minutum,

meagre, dry, Cic. de Or. 2, 38, 159;

so of speech,

id. Fin. 4, 3, 7; id. de Or. 2, 77, 315; 1, 18, 83; Quint. 8, 3, 56 (opp. tumida); cf. of speech:

pro pressis exiles,

id. 10, 2, 16:

vox (opp. plena),

id. 11, 3, 15; ib. 13:

argumentis admodum exilibus niti,

Gell. 14, 2, 4.—

Void, free. —With gen.:

exilis atque inanis aegritudinum,

Plaut. Stich. 4, 1, 21.— Comp.:

caro prunorum,

Plin. 15, 13, 12, § 43:

vox feminis quam maribus (opp. gravior),

id. 11, 51, 112, § 269: vox in senecta, ib. § 270.— Sup. seems not to occur.—Hence, adv.: exīlĭter, thinly, meagrely, feebly, dryly:

nolo verba exiliter exanimata exire,

feebly, Cic. de Or. 3, 11, 41:

annales sane exiliter scripti,

id. Brut. 27, 106:

disputare (with jejune),

id. de Or. 1, 11, 50.— Comp.:

exilius dicere de aliqua re,

more sparingly, briefly, Varr. L. L. 5, § 2 Müll.— Sup. seems not to occur.