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halo

halo · v. n

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Where it lives

de raptu Proserpinae 1 · 1.43/10k
Carminum minorum corpusculum 1 · 1.18/10k
Contra Symmachum 1 · 0.83/10k
Georgicon 1 · 0.71/10k
De Rerum Natura 3 · 0.62/10k
Carmina 1 · 0.45/10k
Silvae 1 · 0.4/10k
Epigrammata 1 · 0.18/10k
Aeneid 1 · 0.16/10k

What it meant

hālo — Lewis & Short

hālo, āvi, ātum, 1, v. n. and

I a., to breathe (poet.; cf.: feo, spiro).

I Neutr., to breathe, to emit vapor or fragrance, be fragrant: invitent croceis halantes floribus horti, Verg. G. 4, 109: ture calent arae sertisque recentibus halant, id. A. 1, 417.—

II Act., to breathe out, exhale: et nardi florem, nectar qui naribus halat, Lucr. 2, 848; 6, 221; 391; Mart. 10, 48.

In the wild

halant Claudian, de raptu Proserpinae 2.1.288
Halat Martial, Epigrammata 10.48.4
halat Lucretius, De Rerum Natura 2.848
halant Sidonius Apollinaris, Carmina 2.412
halantis Prudentius, Contra Symmachum 2.1.215
halat Statius, Silvae 5.3.41

6 of 11 attestations shown.

Where it came from

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