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αἴθω , only pres. and impf.,
A.light up, kindle, Hdt.4.145, A.Ag.1435; “θεοῖς ἱερά” S.Ph. 1033; “λαμπάδας” E.Rh.95; “δάφναν” Theoc.2.24, etc.; “πυρά” E.Rh.41,78,823: metaph., “σέλας ὄμμασιν αἴθει” AP12.93 (Rhian.); χόλον αἶθες ib.5.299 (Paul. Sil.).
2. rarely intr., burn, blaze, Pi.O.7.48; “λαμπτῆρες οὐκέτ᾽ ᾖθον” S.Aj.286.
3. Pass., αἴθομαι , burn, blaze, Hom. always in part., “ πυρὸς μένος αἰθομένοιο” Il. 6.182, cf. 8.563; “αἰ. δαλός” 13.320; “δαΐδες” Od.7.101, cf. Pi. O.1.1, Pae. 6.97, E.Hipp.1279, etc.; after Hom. in other moods, αἴθεται κάλλιστα [τὰ ὀστέα] Hdt.4.61; “αἰθέσθω δὲ πῦρ” E.IA1470; “δώματ᾽ αἴθεσθαι δοκῶν” Id.Ba.624, cf. X.An.6.3.19: metaph., “ἔρωτι αἴθεσθαι” X.Cyr.5.1.16, cf. AP12.83 (Mel.); αἴθετο . . ἔρως (Ep. impf.) burnt fiercely, A.R. 3.296. (Cf. Lat. aestas, aestus: the weak form of the root appears in ἰθαίνεσθαι, cf. Skt. inddhé 'kindles'.)
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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