ἀσπαίρω

A. ἀσπαίρεσκον Q.S. 11.104: (ἀ‐ euph., σπαίρω):—pant, gasp, struggle, in Hom. always of the dying (so κραδίη ἀσπαίρουσα must be taken, Il. 13.443), περὶ δουρὶ ἤσπαιρ’ ὡς ὅτε βοῦς κτλ. ib.571; ζωὸν ἔτ’ ἀσπαίροντα 12.203, cf. Od. 19.229, A. Pers. 977 (lyr.), E. IA 1587; νεκροὶ ‐οντες Antipho 2.4.5; ἀ. ἄνω κάτω E. El. 843; of an infant, Hdt. 1.111; of fish taken out of the water, Id. 9.120, Babr. 6.5:—but in Hdt. 8.5 Ἀδείμαντος ἤσπαιρε μοῦνος was the only one who still made a struggle, resisted; ἐβόων τε καὶ ἤσπαιρον D.H. 7.25.—Poet. and Ion. word.