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ἐρεθίζω , Ep.inf.
A.“-ιζέμεν” Il.4.5 : impf. “ἠρέθιζον” S.Ant.965 (lyr.), Ep. “ἐρ-” Il.5.419 : fut. “-ίσω” Gal.1.385, “-ιῶ” Hp.Mochl.2, Plb.13.4.2 : aor.1 “ἠρέθισα” D.H.3.72 ; poet. “ἐρ-” A.Pr.183(lyr.), inf. “ἐρεθίξαι” AP12.37 (Diosc.) : pf. “ἠρέθικα” Aeschin.2.37:—Pass., aor. 1 ἠρεθίσθην, part. “ἐρεθισθείς” Hdt.6.40, D.H.4.57 : pf. “ἠρέθισμαι” Hp. (v. infr.), etc. : (ἐρέθω):—rouse to anger, rouse to fight, Il.1.32 ; “κερτομίοις ἐπέεσσι” 5.419 ; κύνας τ᾽ ἄνδρας τε, of a lion, 17.658 ; “ἐ. τοὺς Πέρσας” Hdt.3.146 ; “φιλαύλους τ᾽ ἠρ. Μούσας” S.Ant.965(lyr.) ; “ὥσπερ σφηκιὰν ἐ. τινά” Ar. Lys.475 ; “χεῖρον..ἐρεθίσαι γραῦν ἢ κύνα” Men.802 ; πὺξ ἐ. challenge to a boxing-match, Theoc.22.2 ; provoke to curiosity, “μητέρα σήν” Od.19.45 : generally, excite, chafe, “φρένας ἐ. φόβος” A.Pr.183(lyr.) ; of physical irritation, Hp.Mochl.2 ; βῆχες βραχέα -ουσαι causing brief irritation, Id.Aph.4.54 : metaph., “ἐ. πλανάτας χοροῖσιν” E.Ba.148 (lyr.) ; ἐ. μάγαδιν to touch it, Telest.4 ; “φλόγα” Hld.8.9 ; “τὸ φονικὸν καὶ θηριῶδες” Plu.2.822c ; incite to rivalry, 2 Ep.Cor.9.2:—Pass., to be provoked, excited, “ὑπό τινος” Hdt.6.40, cf. Ar.V.1104 ; “ἠρεθισμένος” under provocation, Men.574 ; “ὀργῇ χεῖρασ-ισμένας” Euphro8.3 ; of love, “τοῖς νέοισιν -ισμένος” Timocl.30 ; of fire, “φέψαλος.. -όμενος..ῥιπίδι” Ar. Ach.669 (lyr.) ; “αἰθὴρ -έσθω βροντῇ” A.Pr.1045 (anap.) ; πνεῦμα ἠρεθισμένον, of one who has run till he is out of breath, E.Med.1119 ; “ἕλκος ἠρεθισμένον” irritated, Hp.Fract.27, cf. 31, Plb.1.81.6 ; “ὀσμὴ -ισμένη” Eub.75.9 ; “ἐπὶ τὴν ὕβριν ἠρεθίσθαι” Luc.Am.22.
II. abs., to be quarrelsome or perverse, Ph.1.359.
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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