A.“-πνεύσομαι” E.Andr.555; later “-πνεύσω” Aen.Gaz.Ep.11:—blow or breathe upon, c. dat., “πόντῳ” Hes.Op.508; ἐμπνείοντε μεταφρένῳ, of horses so close behind as to breathe upon one's back, Il.17.502; of a lover, Hsch.; κατ᾽ οὖρον, ὥσπερ ἱστίοις, ἐμπνεύσομαι τῇδε E.l.c.; “ἄνεμος ἐμπνεύσας δορί” Id.Cyc.19; [αὐλοῖς] ἐμπνεῖν breathe into, play the flute, AP9.266 (Antip.): c. acc. cogn., Χείλεσι μοῦσαν ἐ., of Pan, APl.4.226 (Alc.):—Pass., “ἐμπνεόμενα ὄργανα” Poll.4.67; “πνεῦμα -πνεόμενον τῷ αὐλῷ” S.E.P.1.54.
2. abs., breathe in, inhale, Hp.Flat.4; but usu.,
b. breathe, live, be alive, A.Ag.671, Ar.Th.926, Pl.Ap.29d, etc.; τὰ ἐμπνέοντα, = ἔμψυχα, Call. Iamb.1.127; “ἐ. τᾷ τέχνᾳ” AP9.777 (Phil.); of one expiring, “βλέποντα κἀμπνέοντ᾽ ἔτι” S.Ph.883; “σμικρὸν ἐμπνέουσ᾽ ἔτι” E.Alc.205; “βραχὺν δὴ βίοτον ἐμπνέων ἔτι” Id.Hipp.1246.
3. c. gen., breathe of, be laden with, “Ἀραβίης ὀδμῆς” Perict. ap. Stob.4.28.19; “ἐ. ἀπειλῆς καὶ φόνου” Act.Ap.9.1.
2. breathe into, infuse into, μένος, θάρσος. τινί, Il.20.110, Od.9.381, al.; [Μοῦσαι] “ἐνέπνευσαν δέ μοι αὐδήν” Hes. Th.31; “πατρὶ . . πατρὸς ἐνέπνευσεν μένος” Pi.O.8.70: also c. inf. pro acc., φᾶρος ἐνέπνευσε φρεσὶν ὑφαίνειν breathed into my mind (i.e. inspired me with the thought) to weave it, Od.19.138 :— Pass., to be inspired, “ὑπὸ θεοῦ” Longin.16.2; “εἰς μαντικήν” Plu.2.421b.
