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φλέγω , Il.21.13, etc.: fut.
A.“φλέξω” S.Fr.1128.5, A.R.3.582, LXX De.32.22, etc.: aor. “ἔφλεξα” A.Pr.582 (lyr.):—Pass., fut. φλεγήσομαι （συμ-) J.BJ7.8.5: in 4.6.3 the readings κατα-φλέξεσθαι, -φλεχθήσεσθαι, and -φλεγήσεσθαι are found in codd.; “κατα-φλεχθήσεται” Ach.Tat.Intr.Arat. p.61M.: aor. “ἐφλέχθην” Hom.Epigr.14.23, (κατ-) Th.4.133: aor. 2 ἐφλεγην （ἀν-) Luc.DDeor.9.2, (ἐξ-) AP12.178 (Strat.): pf. “πέφλεγμαι” Lyc.806.
A. trans., burn, burn up, Il.21.13; “πυρί <με> φλέξον” A.Pr.582 (lyr.); “φλέγων ἀκτῖσιν ἥλιος χθόνα” Id.Pers.364, cf. 504:—Pass., take fire, blaze up, “ῥέεθρα πυρὶ φλέγετο” Il.21.365, cf. BMus.Inscr.1036 (Caria, ii/i B. C.).
2. Pass., to be inflamed, “κάεσθαί τε καὶ φ.” Pl. Ti.85b; “ἡ πεφλεγμένη ποδαλγία” PLond.5.1676.16 (vi A. D.).
3. metaph., kindle, inflame with passion, “Ἄρεα . . ὃς . . φλέγει με” OT192 (lyr.), cf. Mosch.Fr.2.3, AP5.122 (Phld.), 287 (Paul.Sil.); “αἷμα δάϊον φ.” E.Ph.241 (lyr.):—Pass., burn with passion, S.OC1695 (lyr.), Ar.Nu.992 (anap.), Pl.Chrm.155d; “νεότητι καὶ ἀνοίᾳ φλέγεται τὴν ψυχήν” Id.Lg.716a; “ὑπὸ τοῦ πάθους” D.H.11.28; “ὑπὸ δίψης” Id.9.66; “ὑπὸ τοῦ λιμοῦ” Ael.NA14.27; “ἐπί τινι” Id.Fr.52.
II. light up, “φ. λαμπάσι τόδ᾽ ἱερόν” E.Tr.309 (lyr.); Ζεὺς διὰ χερὸς βέλος φλέγων making it blaze or flash, A.Th.513; “πυρὸς φλέξον μένος” Trag.Adesp.90: metaph., ἄταν οὐρανίαν φλέγων letting the flame of mischief blaze up to heaven, S.Aj.195 (lyr.):—Pass., blaze up, burst or break forth, “βωμοὶ δώροισι φλέγονται” A.Ag.91 (anap.): metaph., “ὕμνοι φλέγονται” B.Fr.3.12.
2. metaph., makeillustrious or famous, “σὲ φλέγοντι Χάριτες” Pi.P.5.45:— Pass., to be or become so, ἀρεταῖς, Μοίσαις φλέγεσθαι, Id.N.10.2, I.7 (6).23.
B. intr., burn, blaze, of fire, torches, etc., A.Ag.308, Th.433, S.Aj.1278; of lightning, Id.OC1467 (lyr.); of the sun, Id.Aj.673; “φλέγονθ᾽ ὑπ᾽ ἄστροις οὐρανόν” A.Th.388: of armour, flash, “νέφος ἀσπίδων φ.” E.Ph.251 (lyr.); “ἄνθεμα χρυσοῦφλέγει” Pi.O.2.72; “γυναικὸς φλέγων ὀφθαλμός” A.Fr.243; of fire-breathing bulls, “φλέγει δὲ μυκτήρ” S.Fr. 336.
2. metaph., burst or break forth, of passion, “θυμὸς ἀνδρεία φλέγων” A.Th.52, cf. 287; “φ. λύσσῃ” Ar.Th.680 (lyr.); of grief, A.R.3.773.
3. shine forth, become famous, Pi.N.6.38.—Poet. in early writers, exc. Pl. ll. cc. (Cf. Lat. fulgeo, flagro, flamma, Lett. blāzma 'glare of light or fire'.)
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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