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πυ^ρεῖον , Ion. πυργ-ήϊον , τό, mostly in pl.,
A.firesticks, h.Merc.111, S.Ph. 36, Thphr.HP5.3.4, D.S.5.67, etc.; “τάχ᾽ ἂν . . τρίβοντες, ὥσπερ ἐκ πυρείων, ἐκλάμψαι ποιήσαιμεν τὴν δικαιοσύνην” Pl.R.435a; πυοεῖά τε “χερσὶν ἐνώμων” Theoc.22.33; “ἀμφὶ πυρήϊα δινεύεσκον” A.R.1.1184; “πυρεῖα συντρίψαντες” Luc.VH1.32; the stationary piece was called ἐσχάρα, the drill τρύπανον, Thphr.Ign.64.
II. sg., earthen pan for coals (= θυμιατήριον, Hsch. (πυρίον), Phot., Suid.), LXXEx.27.3: pl., ib.2 Ch.4.11,21.
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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  • Cross-references in general dictionaries from this page (7):
    • Old Testament, 2 Chronicles, 21
    • Old Testament, 2 Chronicles, 4.11
    • Plato, Republic, 435a
    • Sophocles, Philoctetes, 36
    • Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica, 1.1184
    • Old Testament, Exodus, 27.3
    • Diodorus, Historical Library, 5.67
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