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ἀνθ-ίζω ,
A.strew or deck with flowers, E.Ion890; “κεφαλὴν ῥόδοις” Philostr.Im.1.15 (but σκευὴ ἠνθισμένη adorned, embroidered with flowers, ibid.): metaph., “ἀ. τὴν λέξιν” D.H.Isoc.13:—Med., gather, cull flowers, App.BC4.105.
2. colour, dye, stain, [“πορφύρα] ἀ. τὴν χεῖρα” Arist. HA547a18:—Pass., “ἠνθισμένοι φαρμάκοισι” Hdt.1.98; οὐ γάρ σε μὴ . . γνῶσ᾽ . . ὧδ᾽ ἠνθισμένον thus disguised or with silvered hair, S.El.43; κρέα πυρὸς ἀκμαῖς ἠνθισμένα meat browned at the fire, Epicr.6; οἶνος ἠνθισμένος wine flavoured with flowers, Gal.19.81.
3. ἀνθίζουσα, ἡ, a plaster, Id.13.856.
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 (5):
    • Euripides, Ion, 890
    • Herodotus, Histories, 1.98
    • Sophocles, Electra, 43
    • Dionysius of Halicarnassus, De Isocrate, 13
    • Philostratus the Lemnian (Philostratus Major), Imagines, 1.15
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