proflo
κρέσσων γὰρ οἰκτιρμοῦ φθόνος → it is better to be envied than pitied | to be envied is a nobler fate than to be pitied (Pindar, Pythian 1.85)
Latin > English (Lewis & Short)
prō-flo: āvi, ātum, 1, v. a.,
I to blow forth, breathe out.
I Lit. (poet.): leo proflat ferus ore calores, Q. Cic. poët. ap. Aus. Ecl.: flammas, Ov. F. 1, 573; Val. Fl. 7, 571: pectore sanguineos rivos, Stat. Th. 11, 266.—
B Transf., to melt, liquefy by blowing (postAug.): massa proflatur in primis, mox in proflatum additur, etc., Plin. 34, 9, 20, § 97. —
II Trop., to blow or breathe out (poet. and post-Aug.): noctem Tartaream pectore, Val. Fl. 6, 435: toto proflabat pectore somnum, i.e. was snoring, Verg. A. 9, 326: iras, i.e. to puff and blow, to fret, fume, Plin. 8, 4, 5, § 9.—
B To puff out: nares, App. M. 7, p. 193, 29.
Latin > French (Gaffiot 2016)
prōflō,¹⁵ āvī, ātum, āre, tr.,
1 exhaler : flammas Ov. F. 1, 573, exhaler des flammes
