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ἀποπνέω

apopneo

breathe forth

Appears 4 times across Homer's epics.

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Dictionary (LSJ)

ἀποπνέω, Ep. ἀπο-πνείω (as always in Hom.), fut. -πνεύσομαι, later -πνεύσω Gp. 2.21.3:—
breathe forth, of the Chimaera, δεινὸν ἀποπνείουσα πυρὸς μένος Il. 6.182; [φῶκαι] πικρὸν ἀποπνείουσαι ἁλὸς . . ὀδμήν Od. 4.406; ἀ. ἔπος στόματος Pi. P. 4.11; θυμὸν ἀποπνείων giving up the ghost, Il. 4.524; so without θυμόν, Batr. 99, Nic.Dam. p.61 D., Phleg. Mir. 3; ἀ. ψυχήν Simon. 52; ἡλικίαν Id. 115, Pi. I. 7(6).34; ἀ. τὴν δυσμένειαν to blow it off, get rid of it, Plu. Them. 22:—Pass., ἀποπνεῖται ἡ ἀτμίς Arist. Pr. 937a7.
b. causal in Pi. N. 1.47 χρόνος ἀπέπνευσεν ψυχάς made them give up the ghost.
2. breathe hard, take breath, Arist. HA 587a5; exhale, evaporate, ψυχὰς ὥσπερ ὁμίχλας ἀποπνεούσας τῶν σωμάτων Plu. Vind. 2.560c.
3. in Com., = ἀποπέρδω, AB 439.
II. smell of a thing, c. gen., Luc. Hist.conscr. 15; χθιζῆς μέθης Plu. Lib.educ. 2.13f; but also τοῖον ἀπέπνεε λείψανα so they smelt, A.R. 2.193; τοῦ χρωτὸς ἥδιστον ἀ. Plu. Alex. 4; ἀ. τι τοιοῦτον Id. QConv. 2.695e.
2. exhale (and so lose) the scent, Thphr. HP 9.16.2, cf. Plu. QConv. 2.692c; τὸ βρομῶδες ib. An seni 791b.
III. blow from a particular quarter, αὔρη οὐκ ἀ. ἀπὸ θερμῶν χωρέων Hdt. 2.27, cf. 19; ἀπὸ τῆς γῆς Arist. Mete. 366a33, al.; τὸ ἀποπνέον Id. Pr. 933a39: impers., ἀποπνεῖ ἀπὸ τῆς θαλάττης there is a breeze from the sea, ib. 933a27, 943b4.
IV. Pass., to be blown out, of a light, Plu. Aet.Gr. 2.281b.
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