I. A breathing-hole, airhole, vent, pore, spiracle.
A. Lit.: “caeca relaxat Spiramenta,” Verg. G. 1, 90: “(apes) in tectis certatim tenuia cera Spiramenta linunt,” id. ib. 4, 39: cavernarum (Aetnae), Just. 4, 1, 6; cf. Ov. M. 15, 343 (for which, shortly after: “spirandi viae): talparum,” Pall. 1, 35, 10: “animae,” i. e. the lungs, Verg. A. 9, 580: “dato per cavernas radicibus spiramento,” Plin. 12, 3, 7, § 16.—
B. Trop., a breathing space, i. e. a brief pause or interval, an instant: “intervalla ac spiramenta temporum,” Tac. Agr. 44 fin.: “sine spiramento vel morā,” Amm. 29, 1, 40; 14, 7, 15. —
II. A breathing, blowing, exhaling, Vitr. 7, 12; Macr. S. praef. 1 med.: “venti,” a draught, Vitr. 4, 7.
