I.to blow or breathe out (mostly poet. and post-Aug. prose).
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A. 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.—
B. 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.—
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