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ἐκ-πνέω , Ep. ἐκ-πνείω Q.S.1.349, impf. -είεσκον Id.13.148 : fut. -πνεύσομαι or -οῦμαι:—
A.breathe out or forth, “κεραυνὸς ἐκπνέων φλόγα” A.Pr. 361 ; “ἐ. ἀράς τινι” E.Ph.876 ; “ἐ. θυμόν” Id.Ba.620 : abs., Emp.100.1, Pl.Phd.112b, Arist.HA492b6.
2. “βίον ἐ.” breathe one's last, expire, A.Ag.1493 (lyr.), E.Hel.142 ; “ἐ. ψυχήν” Id.Or.1163 ; alone, “ὑφ᾽ οὗ φονέως ἄρ᾽ ἐξέπνευσας” S.Aj.1026 ; “πρός τινος” E.HF886 (anap.) : abs., Id.Hyps.Fr.60i38, Parth.4.6 : metaph., lose power, Gp.15.1.28; lose lustre, of pearls, PHolm.10.18.
3. lose breath, of a runner, Arist.Rh.1409a32.
II. abs., cease blowing, become calm, [ὁ δῆμος] “ἴσως ἂν ἐκπνεύσειε” E.Or.700 ; τὰ κατὰ τὸν πόλεμον ἐκπέπνευκε καὶ λελώφηκεν Sch.Ar.Pax942.
2. blow out or outwards, of a wind, “ἔσωθεν ἐ.” Hdt.7.36 ; “ἐκ τοῦ κόλπου” Th.2.84, cf. 6.104 ; burst out, “σμικροῦ νέφους..ἐκπνεύσας μέγας χειμών” S.Aj.1148 ; but simply, blow, of wind, Arist.Mete.365a4, Pr.947a31.
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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