Here he makes the vital spirit, being humid, a breath; when it is extinguished he likens it to smoke. And the word "spirit" itself he uses for soul (I. xv. 262):—
His words fresh vigor in the chief infus'd.
And (I. iv. 524):—
Breathing away his spirit.
And (I. xxii. 475):—
But when her breath and spirit returned again.
That is, she collected her distracted spirit (I. v. 697):—
But soon revived, as on his forehead blew,
While yet he gasped for breath, the cooling breeze.
While his spirit was failing him in a faint, the outside breeze having a natural affinity to it brought him back to life. This argument is strengthened because for the external spirit he uses the word "soul," saying (I. xxiii. 440):—
He turned aside with lightest breath.