Afflo, afflas, afflâre. Toblowe to: to blowe vpon: to fill with winde.A serpentibns afflari. Colum. To be blowen vpon.Afflari incendio.Liu.To be lightly singed with the flame.Afflantur odores è floribus.Cic.Flowers cast sweet sauors.Vineta afflantur Noto maligno.Stat.Be blasled or corrupted, &c.Anhelitus oris afflat vittas.Ouid.Odores afflare. Propert. Ore alicuius afflati Ouid.To be couched with the breath of ones mouth. Afflare, pio Flaru implere.Ouid.To fill with winde. Rumoris nescio quid afflauerat. Sub. ME. Cic.A certayne brnte or rumour came to my heating.Afflare alicui, pro Fauere. Tibul. Fœlix, cui placidus leniter afflat Amor. Whome lone sauoureth.Sperat sibi auram posle aliquam afflari in hoc crimine.Cic.He hopeth that by the fauour of some man, he may be hotpen in this crime.Afflare alicui aliquid mali. Author ad Heren. To blow some mischiefe to one: to infect with his breath.Afflare aliquÊ fulmine.Plin. iun.To strske with lightning.Afflare aliquem ventis fulminis.Virg. Idem. Ignibus afflari.Ouid.To be singed with the flame.Afflari diuino spiritu Cic.To be inspired with God.Afflari sydere. Plin. To be blasled, in trees or hearbes. In men also, to be blasted: to be taken: to haue a member sodenly benummed, dead, and mortified.Numine Dei afflatus.Virg.Inspired.Peste afflatus. Sillius. Inseted.Sole afftatus. Claud. Attaint with the sunne.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
af-flo (better adf-), āvi, ātum, 1, v. a. and n.I.Lit., to blow or breathe on; constr. with acc. or dat.—Of the air: udam (fabam) ventus adflavit, Plin. 18, 17, 44, 155: adflantur vineta noto, Stat. S. 5, 1, 146: crinem sparsum cervicibus adflare, Ov. M. 1, 542: adflatus aurā, Suet. Tib. 72. —Also of other things which exert an influence upon bodies, like a current of air; e. g. fire, light, vapor, etc.: et calidum membris adflare vaporem, and breathe a glow (lit. a warm vapor) upon our limbs, Lucr. 5, 508: veiut illis Canidia adflāsset, Hor. S. 2, 8, 95: nos ubi primus equis oriens adflavit anhelis, Verg. G. 1, 250; cf. id. A. 5, 739: ignibus (fulminum) adflari, Ov. Tr. 1, 9, 22: adflati incendio,
touched
,
scorched
, Liv. 30, 6: flammā ex Aetnā monte, id. Fragm. Serv. ad Verg. G. 1, 472.—So, adflari sidere = siderari, to be seized with torpor or paralysis (v. sideror and sideratio), Plin. 2, 41, 41, 108: odores, qui adflarentur e floribus,
were wafted
,
exhaled
, Cic. Sen. 17; Prop. 3, 27, 17.—II.Trop., to blow or breathe to or on.A. As v. act., to bear or bring to; constr. alicui aliquid: sperat sibi auram posse aliquam adflari voluntatis, Cic. Verr. 2, 1, 13: rumoris nescio quid adflaverat, frequentiam non fuisse, id. Att. 16, 5: alicui aliquid mali faucibus adflare, Auct. ad Her. 4, 49.—So poet.: adflare alicui honores, to breathe beauty upon one, i. e. to impart to, Verg. A. 1, 591: indomitis gregibus Venus adflat amores, Tib. 2, 4, 57.—B. As v. neutr., to be favorable to, to be friendly or propitious to: Felix, cui placidus leniter adflat Amor, Tib. 2, 1, 80.