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ĭn-hĭo , āvi, ātum, 1, v. n. and
I.a., to stand open, to gape.
I. In gen.
A. Lit.: “ora inhiasse luporum,Stat. Th. 1, 626.—
B. Trop., to gape with amazement, etc.: “inhians Cerberus,Verg. G. 4, 483: “attonitis inhians animis,id. A. 7, 814.—
II. In partic., to open the mouth wide, to gape at.
A. Lit.: “Romulus lactens, uberibus lupinis inhians,Cic. Cat. 3, 8, 19: “gazis inhians,Sen. Herc. Fur. 166: “praedae,Val. Fl. 2, 531: pecudumque reclusis Pectoribus inhians, spirantia consu, lit exta, Verg. A. 4, 64.—With acc.: “postes,to gape at, Verg. G. 2, 463.—
B. Transf., to gaze at with eagerness, regard with longing (cf.: “capto, appeto, sitio): congestis saccis,Hor. S. 1, 1, 71: “inhians in te, dea,Lucr. 1, 36; Just. 17, 3, 4; Flor. 3, 11, 2; Tac. A. 4, 12; 11, 1; 12, 59 al.: “lucro,Sen. Contr. 3, 22, 11: “omnia, quibus vulgus inhiat,id. Ep. 102, 27; Val. Max. 7, 2, ext. 1: “dictis,to hear eagerly, attend closely to, Val. Fl. 5, 469; Suet. Ter. 1.—With acc. (poet. and rare, except in Plaut.): “hereditatem alicujus,Plaut. Stich. 4, 2, 25: “aurum,id. Aul. 2, 2, 17: mortem alicujus, Caecil. ap. Gell. 2, 23, 10; Plaut. Truc. 2, 3, 18: “bona mea,id. Mil. 3, 1, 121: “inhiat quod nusquam est miser,id. ib. 4, 4, 62.
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  • Cross-references in general dictionaries from this page (19):
    • Cicero, Against Catiline, 3.8.19
    • Plautus, Stichus, 4.2
    • Vergil, Aeneid, 4.64
    • Vergil, Aeneid, 7.814
    • Vergil, Georgics, 2.463
    • Vergil, Georgics, 4.483
    • Horace, Satires, 1.1.71
    • Tacitus, Annales, 4.12
    • Plautus, Aulularia, 2.2
    • Plautus, Miles Gloriosus, 3.1
    • Plautus, Truculentus, 2.3
    • Lucretius, De Rerum Natura, 1.36
    • Seneca, Hercules Furens, 166
    • C. Valerius Flaccus, Argonautica, 2.531
    • C. Valerius Flaccus, Argonautica, 5.469
    • Gellius, Noctes Atticae, 2.23.10
    • Seneca, Epistulae, 102.27
    • Statius, Thebias, 1
    • Valerius Maximus, Facta et Dicta Memorabilia, 7.2
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