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reflo

reflo · v. n

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Where it lives

Antoninus Heliogabalus 2 · 3.45/10k
Metamorphoses 4 · 0.75/10k
De Officiis 1 · 0.3/10k
de Natura Deorum 1 · 0.28/10k
De Rerum Natura 1 · 0.21/10k
Tusculanae Disputationes 1 · 0.18/10k
Res Gestae 2 · 0.16/10k
Letters to Atticus 2 · 0.16/10k
Thebais 1 · 0.16/10k
Naturalis Historia 1 · 0.03/10k

What it meant

rĕ-flo — Lewis & Short

rĕ-flo, āvi, ātum, 1, v. n. and

I a.

I Neutr., to blow back, blow contrary.

A Lit.: reflantibus ventis, Cic. Tusc. 1, 49, 119: Etesiae valde reflant, id. Att. 6, 7, 2: antra, Sid. Ep. 9, 13: ventorum procellae reflantium, Amm. 19, 10; 22, 8. — Poet.: pelagus respargit, reflat, Att. ap. Cic. N. D. 2, 35, 89 (Trag. Rel. p. 158 Rib.).—

B Trop.: cum prospero flatu ejus (fortunae) utimur, ad exitus pervehimur optatos et, cum reflavit, affligimur, Cic. Off. 2, 6, 19: reflante fortunā, Amm. 31, 13, 19; cf. Lact. 3, 29. —

II Act.

A To blow again from one's self, to blow or breathe out: (aër) cum ducitur atque reflatur, is breathed out, exhaled, Lucr. 4, 938: spiritum, folles, to blow out, Lampr. Heliog. 25: sucositatem, to evaporate, Cael. Aur. Acut. 2, 29. —

B To blow or puff out again: laciniam (ventus), App. M. 10, p. 254, 9; cf.: reflato sinu, id. ib. 4, p. 158 fin.: signum veste reflatum, id. ib. 2, p. 116, 7.

In the wild

reflabat Historia Augusta, Antoninus Heliogabalus 25
reflabat Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae 18.4.1
reflandum Historia Augusta, Antoninus Heliogabalus 25
reflantem Apuleius, Metamorphoses 9.25
reflantibus Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae 22.8.25
reflat Cicero, de Natura Deorum 2.89

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Where it came from

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