spiritus
Short definition (Lewis & Short): a breathing or gentle blowing of air, a breath, breeze (syn.: aura, flatus).
Full entry: Lexicon.
91 occurrences of this form in 22 works (dictionary form exactly as written, accents ignored, v/u and j/i as single letters; inflected forms not included).
Works using this form
- Letters to Lucilius
- Annals
- History of Rome (Books 1–10)
- The Golden Ass
- De Oratore
- Metamorphoses
- De Rerum Natura
- Aeneid
- Odes
- Ars Amatoria
- Histories
- Gallic War
- Letters
- Life of Tiberius
- Georgics
- Against Catiline (Catilinarians)
- Philippics
- Satires
- Civil War
- On Tranquility of Mind
- On the Shortness of Life
- Eclogues
Example passages
…Haec eius obrussa est: non potest athleta magnos spiritus ad certamen adferre, qui numquam suggillatus est; ille, qui sanguinem suum vidit, cuius dentes crepuere sub pugno, ille, qui subplantatus adversarium toto tulit corpore nec proiecit animum……
……secutus concesso reditu petitione honorum abstinuit, donec ultro ambiretur delatum ab Augusto consulatum accipere. sed praeter paternos spiritus uxoris quoque Plancinae nobilitate et opibus accendebatur; vix Tiberio concedere, liberos eius ut multum infra despectare. nec dubium habebat se delectum qui Syriae imponeretur ad spes Germanici……
…tunc adeo fracti simul cum corpore sunt spiritus illi feroces ut qui nihil ante ratus esset minus regium quam sacris dedere animum, repente omnibus magnis paruisque superstitionibus obnoxius degeret religionibusque etiam populum impleret.…