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ζέω , contr. 3sg. ζεῖ even in Il.21.362; later Ep. ζείω Call.Dian. 60, subj. ζείῃσι Epic. in Arch.Pap.7p.7; in late Prose ζέννυμι (q.v.): impf.
A.“ζέε” Il.21.365, “ἔζεε” Hes.Th.695, “ἔζει” S.OC434: fut. ζέσω （ἐξανα-) A.Pr.372: aor. “ἔζεσα” Hdt.7.188, cf. ἐπιζέω; Ep. “ζέσσα” Il.18.349:—Pass., aor. ἐζέσθην （ἀπ-) Dsc.1.3, (ἐν-) Aret.CA1.2: pf. “ἔζεσμαι” Gp.10.54.3:—boil, seethe, of water, “ἐπεὶ δὴ ζέσσεν ὕδωρ ἐνὶ ἤνοπι χαλκῷ” Il.18.349, Od.10.360; ὡς δὲ λέβης ζεῖ ἔνδον as the kettle boils, Il.21.362, cf. E.Cyc.343; rarely of solids, to be fiery hot, “χθὼν ἔζεε” Hes.Th.695,847; “χαλκός” Call. l.c.
2. ferment, Hp.VM11; “γλεύκους ζέοντος” Dsc.5.8.
3. metaph., boil or bubble up, “τῆς θαλάσσης ζεσάσης” Hdt.7.188; “αἷμα διὰ χρωτὸς ζέσσ᾽” AP7.208 (Anyte); “οἶνος ζεῖ” Pl.Lg.773d.
b. of passion, “ὁπηνίκ᾽ ἔζει θυμός” S.OC434, cf. Pl.R.440c, etc.; “τὸ ζέον τῆς μάχης” Hld.1.33.
4. c. gen., boil up or over with a thing, “λίμνη ζέουσα ὕδατος καὶ πηλοῦ” Pl.Phd.113a; πίθος ζ. [οἴνου] Thphr.HP9.17.3; πεδία ζείοντ᾽ Ἀγαρηνῶν boiling, teeming with . . , APl.4.39 (Arab.); of persons, “ζ. σκωλήκων” Luc.Alex.59: c. dat., “ζ. φθειρί” Id.Sat.26; “ζ. φλογμῷ” Lyc.690; “θάλαττα αἵυατι καὶ ῥοθίῳ ζέουσα” Aristid.1.142J.
II. causal, make to boil, boil, “τοὶ δὲ λοετρὰ πυρὶ ζέον” A.R.3.273; θυμὸν ἐπὶ Τροίῃ πόσον ἔζεσας; AP7.385 (Phil.).
2. exhale, ἀϋτμήν (v.l. -μῇ) A.R.1.734. (ζέ（ς）-ω, cf. ζεσ-τός, Skt. yásati 'boil', OHG.jësan 'ferment', 'foam', Engl. yeast.）
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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