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ἀγριαίνω , fut.
A.“ανῶ” Pl.R.501e: aor. “ἠγρία_να” D.C.44.47, Ael.VH2.13:—Pass., D.H.9.32, Plu.Ant.58: fut. “ἀγριανθήσομαι” LXX Da.11.11: aor. “ἠγριάνθην” D.S.24.1.—In Att. the Pass. was supplied by ἀγριόω (q. v.), which was rare in Act.; but the compd. Pass. ἐξαγριαίνομαι occurs in Pl.R.336d, and the Act. ἐξαγριόω in Hdt.6.123, E.Ph.876, Pl.Lg.935a.
1. intr., to be or become wild, to be angered, provoked, Pl.R.493b, etc.; τινί with one, Id.Smp.173d; “πρός τινα” Porph.Abst. 3.12; of animals, Arist.HA608b31; of rivers and the like , chafe, “πρὸς τὴν πλήμμυραν . . ἀγριαίνων ὁ ποταμός” Plu.Caes.38:—Pass., D.S. l.c.; of sores, to be angry or inflamed, Aret.SD2.11, cf. Antyll. ap. Orib.10.13.2.
II. causal, make angry, provoke, D.C.44.47; of love, irritate, Ach.Tat.2.7:—Pass., to be angered, Plu. l.c., Hierocl. in CA10p.434M.; “ὑπὸ τῶν δημαγωγῶν” D.H. l.c.
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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