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δια-πνέω , Ep. δια-πνείω , fut. -πνεύσομαι,
A.blow through, of air, “δ. τὸ σῶμα” Arist.Pr.967a3, cf. Mete.370b6, etc.:—Pass., “αὔραις διαπνεῖσθαι” X.Smp.2.25, cf. Arist.HA518a16, D.S.5.82.
2. intr., admit air, “ἀπόφραξον ἅπαντα ὡς μὴ διαπνέειν” HeroSpir.2.21.
II. breathe between times, get breath, Plb.27.9.10, Plu.Cim.12, Ph.1.90,al.; “ἐκ δυσχερείας” Plb.31.4.1.
III. intr., disperse in vapour, evaporate, Arist.Resp.479a17, PA671a20, cf. Ph. 2.42: so,
IV. Pass., “διαπίπτειν καὶ διαπνεῖσθαι” Pl.Phd.80c; “δ. καὶ σήπεται τὸ σῶμα” Arist.de An.411b9.
2. Medic., dissipate by exhalation, Aret.SA1.7:—Pass., Gal.15.377 (also intr. in pass. sense, “διέπνευσε τὸ ἄλγος” Aret.CA1.10).
3. Pass., of plants, exhale, “διαπνεῖται καὶ ἐξατμίζεται” Thphr.CP1.1.3, cf. M.Ant.6.16; of human beings, perspire, Id.3.1, Gal.15.377:—so Med., Hp.Alim.28.
Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. A Greek-English Lexicon. revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones. with the assistance of. Roderick McKenzie. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1940.

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