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Omnis et ūna / dīlāpsus calor, atque in ventōs vīta recessit.
And all at once her warmth faded away, and her life receded into the winds. (The death of Dido; the conclusion of Book 4. See the notes by Page, T.E., , pg. 394: “‘Life,’ ‘breath,’ ‘spirit,’ anima, ἄνεμος are so closely connected in human speech that poets naturally speak of life passing ‘into the winds.’”)
Mōta dea est operīque favet: nāvālibus exit puppis, habent ventōs iam mea vēla suōs.
The goddess is moved and she favors the work: my ship is leaving the docks, already my sails have their winds. (Inspiration returns as, metaphorically, the poet and his readers sail onward. Idiomatically, Ovid ‘‘has found his second wind’’ while writing the fourth book of the Fasti.)
“ventus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
“ventus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
ventus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
ventus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
there is a storm at sea: mare ventorum vi agitatur et turbatur
the wind spread the conflagration: ventus ignem distulit (B. G. 5. 43)
the wind is falling: ventus remittit (opp. increbrescit)
the wind dies down, ceases: ventus cadit, cessat
to have favourable, contrary, winds: ventis secundis, adversis uti
the wind is turning to the south-west: ventus se vertit in Africum
the east winds are blowing: venti ab ortu solis flant
with the wind against one: ventis reflantibus (Tusc. 1. 49)
(ambiguous) to strive to gain popular favour by certain means: ventum popularem quendam (in aliqua re) quaerere
(ambiguous) the ships sail out on a fair wind: ventum (tempestatem) nancti idoneum ex portu exeunt
(ambiguous) to run before the wind: vento se dare
“ventus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers