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Alphabetical [« »] brass 1 breadth 2 breast 12 breath 21 breathe 3 breathed 1 breathing 3 | Frequency [« »] 22 even 22 only 22 though 21 breath 21 et 21 strength 21 time | Lucius Caecilius Firmianus Lactantius On the workmanship of God IntraText - Concordances breath |
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1 3 | this, even when animated by breath, being unfledged and tender, 2 10| one, that of drawing the breath; the second, that of smelling; 3 11| the lungs, into which the breath might pass by an alternate 4 11| of the uterus, lest the breath should all at once be poured 5 11| might gradually receive the breath; while the vital air is 6 11| the neck for food, and for breath, the upper of which leads 7 11| opening the gullet. The breath, on the other hand, which 8 11| is always open. For the breath can have no cessation in 9 11| because either smell or breath does not cease to flow through 10 11| mouth only; nor could the breath proceeding from it cause 11 11| they pour forth that vocal breath through the nostrils, as 12 11| should be obstructed, the breath should be stifled. But the 13 15| to be air struck by the breath; from which words derive 14 15| more probable, that the breath, being compressed, when 15 15| as when we send down the breath into an open hemlock stalk, 16 15| it to the lips, and the breath, reverberating from the 17 15| is animated into vocal breath. Now, whether this is true, 18 15| affected by that greatest breath with which we gasp, but 19 15| light and not compressed breath, as often as we wish. It 20 17| appear to live by drawing breath from the air. Varro gives 21 17| the blood, and heat, and breath. But since the soul exists