ventilate Copy link Outline I. Lit.II. Fig. • ventilate: I. Lit.: sometimes ventĭlo, 1 (to fan, hence to expose to the air): of wine, corn, and the like: Plin.: Col.: Varr. Phr.: they prefer granaries to be thoroughly v.d, perflari undique granaria malunt, Plin. 18, 30, 73: they v. the room, perflatus admittunt, id. 17, 19, 31: a well-v.d house, aedificium habens perflatum, Cels. 1, 2: Plin. 18, 17, 44, no. 2. II. Fig.: to discuss, publish: *in medium profĕro, tŭli, latum, irreg.: v. to discuss. examine, publish.