A.“ἀσπαίρεσκον” Q.S.11.104: (ἀ- euph., σπαίρω):—pant, gasp, struggle, in Hom. always of the dying (so κραδίη ἀσπαίρουσα must be taken, Il.13.443), περὶ δουρὶ ἤσπαιρ᾽ ὡς ὅτε βοῦς κτλ. ib.571; “ζωὸν ἔτ᾽ ἀσπαίροντα” 12.203, cf. Od. 19.229, A.Pers.977 (lyr.), E.IA1587; “νεκροὶ -οντες” Antipho 2.4.5; “ἀ. ἄνω κάτω” E.El.843; of an infant, Hdt.1.111; of fish taken out of the water, Id.9.120, Babr.6.5:—but in Hdt.8.5 Ἀδείμαντος ἤσπαιρε μοῦνος was the only one who still made a struggle, resisted; “ἐβόων τε καὶ ἤσπαιρον” D.H.7.25.—Poet. and Ion. word.
ἀσπαίρω , impf. ἤσπαιρον, Ion. and Ep.
Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. A Greek-English Lexicon. revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones. with the assistance of. Roderick McKenzie. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1940.
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