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πυ^ρά , ᾶς, Ep. and Ion. πυ^ρή , ῆς, ἡ, (πῦρ)
A.funeral-pyre, “πυραὶ νεκύων καίοντο θαμειαί” Il.1.52, etc.; “πυρῆς ἐπιβάντ᾽ ἀλεγεινῆς” 4.99, etc.; “ἐν δὲ πυρῇ ὑπάτῃ νεκρὸν θέσαν” 23.165, 24.787, cf. Pi.N.9.24, S.Tr.1254, etc.; “ποίησαν δὲ πυρὴν ἑκατόμπεδον” Il.23.164; πυρὴν νῆσαι, συννῆσαι, to raise one, Hdt.1.50, 86; πυρῆς ἁμμένης ibid.; “τινὰ πυρᾷ κέαντες” S.El.757; “σκῦλα πρὸς πυρὰν ἐμὴν κόμιζε” Id.Ph.1432; “ἐπὶ τῇ π. κείμενος” Pl.R.614b; αἱ τῶν ζωγρηθέντων σφαγαὶ εἰς τὴν π. ib.391b.
b. mound raised on the place of the pyre, tumulus, Pi.I.8(7).63, S.El.901, E.Hec.386, IT26.
2. altar for burnt sacrifice, Hdt.7.167, E.Ion 1258 (troch.); “ἑρκεῖος π.” Id.Tr.483; fire burning thereon, dub. l. in Hdt.2.39.
3. burning mass, ib.107, Zos.2.13; λαμπάδων π. a mass of burning torches, D.S.17.36.
Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. A Greek-English Lexicon. revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones. with the assistance of. Roderick McKenzie. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1940.

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