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θρῴσκω (so in Alc.Supp.12.9, but
A.“θρώσκω” Did. ap. Hdn.Gr.2.522), Il.13.589, A.Ch.846, Eu.660: Ep. impf. “θρῷσκον” Il.15.314: fut. θοροῦμαι, Ion. 3pl. θορέονται （ὑπερ-) 8.179, cf. A.Supp.873 (lyr.): aor. ἔθορον （ἐκ-) Il.7.182, etc., Ep. “θόρον” Il. (v. infr. 2), Hes.Sc.321, subj. “θόρω” Od. 22.303; inf. θορεῖν （ἀνα-) X.Lac.2.3, Ion. θορέειν （ὑπερ-) Il.12.53; later ἔθρωξα （ἀν-) Opp.H.3.293: pf. part. fem. τεθορυίης prob. in Antim.65: (cf. θορός: for the form cf. βλώσκω):—poet. Verb, leap, spring, “χαμᾶζε θορών” Il.10.528; “ἐκ δίφροιο” 8.320; “ἀπὸ λέκτροιο” Od.23.32; “ἰχθὺς θρῴσκων κατὰ κῦμα” Il.21.126; of arrows, “ἀπὸ νευρῆφι δ᾽ ὀϊστοὶ θρῷσκον” 15.314, cf. 470, 16.773; of beans tossed from the winnowing shovel, “ἀπὸ πτυόφιν θρῴσκωσιν κύαμοι” 13.589; of the oar, S.OC718 (lyr.).
2. folld. by Prep., leap upon, assault, “ἐπὶ Τρώεσσι θόρον” Il.8.252, cf. 15.380; “εἴς τινα” A.R.1.1296; “πλησίον τινός” E.Or.257 (in this sense Hom. always uses aor.); of a recurring illness, attack, S.Tr.1028 (lyr.).
3. rush, dart, Pi.P.9.119; πεδίον over the plain, E.Ba.873 (lyr.); δόμους to the house, S.Tr.58: metaph., λόγοι πεδάρσιοι θρῴσκουσι leap up into air, i.e. melt away, A.Ch.846.
II. trans.,= θόρνυμαι, mount, impregnate, “κνώδαλα” Id.Fr.15; ὁ θρῴσκων the sire, Id.Eu.660; cf. θορός, θορή.
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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