Aspiro, aspíras, pen. prod. Aspirâre. To blowe or vent vpon: to touche: to come to: to haue accesse to: to aspire: to looke to come to a thing: to attaine to: to fauour: to giue ayde: to giue all study and wit to attaine a thing: vt, Aspirant auræ, Virg.Aspirare ad granaria dicitur ventus. Varro. To blowe vpon. Aspirare, pro Accedere. Col. Ne coluber, ne vipera, aut mustela possit aspirare. Approche or come vnto.Quò neque Carthaginensium classes vnquam aspirare potuerunt Cic.They could nener attayne to come. Aspirare in curiam. Cicero. To aspire or get into the senate house.Aspirare in campum alicuius.Cic.Aspirare nemo potest ad illum.Cicer.No man can haue atcesse to him.Aspirare ad aliquem ex bellica laude.Cicer.To attayne to the excellencie of one, in the pralse or renowme of martiall prowesse.Aspirare ad rem aliquam.Cic.To aspire or indeuour with all study to attaine a thing.Accedere, aut aspirare ad causam alterius inuito eo.Cic.To procure to meddle in an other mans cause.Ad eam laudem aspirare non possunt.Cic.They cannot attaine to that prayse. Aspirat Deus mentem aut ingenium hominibus. Quint. Hoc est, impertit dat.Inspireth or giueth.Aspirat primo fortuna labori.Virg.Fortune fauoureth.Aspirat fœlicitas alicui. Curt. Prosperitie fauoureth.
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a-spīro (adsp-, Baiter, Rib., Merk., K. and H.; asp-, Kayser, Halm, Müller), āvi, ātum, 1, v. n. and a.I.Neutr.A.To breathe or blow upon; constr. with ad, the dat., or absol.: ad quae (granaria) nulla aura umida ex propinquis locis adspiret, Varr. R. R. 1, 57: ut ne ad eum frigus adspiret, Cels. 2, 17: pulmones se contrahunt adspirantes,
exhaling
, Cic. N. D. 2, 55, 136: Lenius aspirans aură, Cat. 68, 64: amaracus illum Floribus et dulci adspirans complectitur umbrā, Verg. A. 1, 694: adspirant aurae in noctem, rise at or toward night, id. ib. 7, 8: si minuma adspirat aura, Plin. 13, 22, 43, 124: tibia adspirat choro,
accompanies
, Hor. A. P. 204 al.—2.Trop.: alicui, to be favorable to, to favor, assist (the figure taken from a fair breeze): aspira mihi, Tib. 2, 1, 35: quibus aspirabat Amor, id. 2, 3, 71: adspirat primo fortuna labori, Verg. A. 2, 385: adspirate canenti, id. ib. 9, 525: di, coeptis adspirate meis, Ov. M. 1, 3.—Also absol.: magno se praedicat auxilio fuisse, quia paululum in rebus difficillimis aspiravit, Auct. ad Her. 4, 34 (cf. afflo).—B.To aspire to a person or thing, to desire to reach or obtain, i. e. to approach, come near (esp. with the access. idea of striving to attain to); constr. with ad, in with acc., the dat., a local adv., or absol. (class.; freq. in Cic.): qui prope ad ostium adspiraverint, Lucil. ap. Non. p. 4, 142: quid enim quisquam ad meam pecuniam me invito aspirat? quid accedit?Cic. Verr. 2, 1, 54 fin.; so id. Div. in Caecil. 5 fin.: tu ad eum Ciceronem numquam aspirasti, id. Pis. 5 fin.; so id. Fam. 7, 10: omnes aditus tuos interclusi, ut ad me adspirare non posses, id. Tusc. 5, 9, 27: aspirare in curiam, id. Verr. 2, 2, 31: in campum, id. Sull. 18, 52: ne non modo intrare, verum etiam adspicere aut aspirare possim, id. Caecin. 14; Col. 8, 14, 9: nec equis adspirat Achillis, Verg. A. 12, 352: sed non incendia Colchis adspirare sinit, Val. Fl. 7, 584.— Trop.: sed haec ad eam laudem, quam volumus, aspirare non possunt,
arrive at
,
attain to
, Cic. Or. 41, 140: bellicā laude aspirare ad Africanum nemo potest, id. Brut. 21, 84: haec etiam in equuleum coniciuntur, quo vita non adspirat beata, id. Tusc. 5, 5, 13; Gell. 14, 3, 10.—C. In gram., to give the h sound, to aspirate (cf. aspiratio, II. B.): consonantibus, Quint. 1, 5, 20: Graeci aspirare solent, id. 1, 4, 14; Nigid. ap. Gell. 13, 6, 3.—II.Act.A.To breathe or blow upon, to infuse, instil; lit. and trop. (poet. or in post-Aug. prose): Juno ventos adspirat eunti,
sends favoring winds
, Verg. A. 5, 607: adspiravit auram quandam salutis fortuna, Amm. 19, 6: dictis divinum amorem, Verg. A. 8, 373: novam pectoribus fidem, Claud. Fesc. 14, 16: nobis tantum ingenii aspiret, Quint. 4, prooem. 5.— B.To breathe or blow upon; trop. of the sea, to wash: insula adspiratur freto Gallico,