Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

ἀπνευστί

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Principal Part: ἀπνευστί

Sense

  1. to hold one's breath, without drawing breath

Examples

  • Θουκυδίδησ δὲ πόλεμον ἕνα κατατείνασ ἀπνευστὶ διεξέρχεται μάχασ ἐπὶ μάχαισ καὶ παρασκευὰσ ἐπὶ παρασκευαῖσ καὶ λόγουσ ἐπὶ λόγοισ συντιθείσ· (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Epistula ad Pompeium Geminum, chapter 3 12:1)
  • Οὐκ ἐγὼ ̓λέγον ὅτι θᾶττον τοὺσ γῦπασ ἑώλοσ νεκρὸσ ἐν φανερῷ κείμενοσ ἢ θέαμά τι τῶν παραδόξων Τιμόλαον διαλάθοι, κἂν εἰσ Κόρινθον δέοι ἀπνευστὶ θέοντα ἀπιέναι διὰ τοῦτο; (Lucian, 2:1)
  • ἀπνευστὶ τ’ ἐκπιὼν ὡσ ἄν τισ ἥδιστ’ ἴσον ἴσῳ κεκραμένον. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 10, book 10, chapter 36 4:13)
  • ἔπινον οὗτοι ἅλμην παραμισγομένην τῷ αὑτῶν ποτῷ καὶ ἔδει προσενέγκασθαι τὸ ποτήριον ἀπνευστί, ὡσ Ἀντιφάνησ δηλοῖ ἐν Γανυμήδει διὰ τούτων· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 10, book 10, chapter 881)
  • οὔκ, ἀλλ’ ὀπίσω τὼ χεῖρε ποιήσαντα δεῖ ἕλκειν ἀπνευστί. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 10, book 10, chapter 88 2:10)

Synonyms

  1. to hold one's breath

Related

Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.

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