expectoro

A New Latin Dictionary by Charlton T. Lewis Ph.D. and Charles Short, LL. D.

ex-pectŏro, āre, 1, v. a. [pectus],

to drive from the breast; to expel , banish from the mind (ante-class.): tum pavor sapientiam omnem mi exanimato expectorat, Enn. ap. Cic. Tusc. 4, 8, 19 (Trag. Fragm. ed. Rib. p. 17): pavorem hunc meum expectora, Att. ap. Non. 16, 6; 16, 8 (Trag. Fragm. ed. Rib. p. 175 and 213).

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