I. A breathing - hole, passage for the breath, air-hole, thrill, vent (poet. and very rare): spiramina Naris, Enn. ap. Prisc. p. 691 P. (Ann. v. 265 Vahl.); Luc. 2, 183: “sunt qui spiramina terris Esse putant,” id. 10, 247; cf.: “spiramina laxanda,” Plin. 32, 10, 42, § 123.—
II. Abstr., a breathing, blowing (poet. and in post-class. prose), Luc. 6, 90: “ventorum spiramina,” Amm. 17, 7, 11: “reficit spiramina fessi ignis,” Stat. Th. 12, 268: “lacessitus longo spiraminis actu,” Claud. Magn. 36: “interclusis spiraminibus interire,” Arn. 2, 133.— Of the Holy Ghost, Rust. Help. Carm. 77.
