When Jerome translated the Greek text of the Bible into the language of the common people of Latium (the region of central western Italy in which the city of Rome is located), he translated the Greek "theopneustos" as "divinitus inspirata" ("divinely breathed into"). The word "inspiration" comes from the Latin noun "inspiratio" and from the verb "inspirare". "Inspirare" is a compound term resulting from the Latin prefix "in" (inside, into) and the verb "spirare" (to breathe). "Inspirare" meant originally "to blow into", as for example in the sentence of the Roman poet Ovid: ""conchae [...] sonanti inspirare iubet"" ("he orders to blow into the resonant [...] shell"). In classic Roman times, "inspirare" had already come to mean "to breathe deeply" and assumed also the figurative sense of "to instill in the heart or in the mind of someone". In Christian theology, the Latin word "inspirare" was already used by some Church Fathers in the first centuries to translate the Greek term "pnéo".