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flatus

flatus · m

a blowing

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Where it lives

Moretum, Appendix Vergiliana 1 · 12.92/10k
Panegyricus de tertio consulatu Honorii Augusti 1 · 7.24/10k
de raptu Proserpinae 3 · 4.3/10k
de bello Gildonico 1 · 3.16/10k
Cathemerina 2 · 2.72/10k
Apotheosis 2 · 2.7/10k
Fabulae Aesopiae 2 · 1.82/10k
Octavius 2 · 1.72/10k
De Consolatione ad Helviam 1 · 1.48/10k
de consulatu Stilichonis 1 · 1.32/10k
De consolatione philosophiae 3 · 1.22/10k
Argonautica 4 · 1.08/10k

Densest 12 of 30 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

flātus — Lewis & Short

flātus, ūs, m.flo,

I a blowing, breathing, snorting (mostly poet.; syn.: flamen, flabra, ventus, aura).

I Lit.: nondum spissa nimis complere sedilia flatu (sc. tibiae), Hor. A. P. 205; Phaedr. 5, 7, 14: flatuque secundo, Carbasa mota sonant, Ov. M. 13, 418; so of the wind, id. ib. 14, 226; Hor. C. 4, 5, 10; also in plur., Ov. M. 15, 302; Verg. G. 2, 339: ipsa sui flatus ne sonet aura, cavet, of his breath, Ov. F. 1, 428: (equi) humescunt spumis flatuque sequentum, with the snorting, Verg. G. 3, 111; in plur.: aestiferi, Cic. Arat. 111: ventris (with crepitus), a breaking wind, Suet. Claud. 32: flatu figuratur vitrum, Plin. 36, 26, 66, § 193.—

B Transf., concr., the breath of life, the soul, Prud. stef. 3, 168.—

II Trop.

A A breath, breeze (the fig. being taken from wind): cum prospero flatu fortunae utimur, ad exitus pervehimur optatos, Cic. Off. 2, 6, 19: ad id, unde aliquis flatus ostenditur, vela do, id. de Or. 2, 44, 187. —

B Pride, haughtiness (mostly in plur.): det libertatem fandi flatusque remittat, Verg. A. 11, 346; Ov. A. A. 1, 715; Val. Fl. 3, 699; Stat. Th. 1, 321; 3, 192.

In the wild

flatibus Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae 23.6.69
flatibus Tacitus, Historiae 4.86
flatibus Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae 24.3.13
flatibus Claudian, de raptu Proserpinae 2.1.75
flatibus Claudian, Panegyricus de tertio consulatu Honorii Augusti 1.141
flatibus Bede, Historiam ecclesiasticam gentis Anglorum 1.17.p1

6 of 52 attestations shown.

Where it came from

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