Significatio vocis expirans | Babel Free

Definitiones

1. exhaling
   declension-3, form-of, one-termination, participle, present
2. expiring, dying
   declension-3, form-of, one-termination, participle, present

Aequivalentia

Exempla

““illum expīrantem trānsfīxō pectore flammās”

“That one exhaling flames from [his] pierced chest [after] she grabbed [him] up in a whirlwind and impaled [him] on a pointed rock.” (What is described in line 44 occurs after line 45, an example of hysteron proteron; i.e., Ajax the Lesser dies after Athena strikes him down. Here, “expirantem” may be understood as “exhaling” fire as well as “expiring” with a dying breath.)

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