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φρυκτός , ή, όν, (φρύγω)
A.roasted, ὑμᾶς . . φρυκτοὺς σκευάσω I'll make roast meat of you, Ar.V.1331 (lyr.); “ἀμύγδαλα φ.” Sor.1.123.
II. as Subst., φρυκτός, ὁ, fire-brand, torch: esp. signal-fire, beacon, A.Ag.30,282,292; “φρυκτοὶ ἐς τὰς Ἀθήνας πολέμιοι ᾔ ροντο” Th.2.94, cf. 3.22, Aen.Tact.7.4, Onos.25.3.
2. φρυκτός (sc. κύαμος), ὁ, a lot, because roasted beans were used for drawing lots, Plu.2.492a: also, a bean for voting, Poll.8.18.
3. φρυκτοί, οἱ, small fish for frying, small fry, Anaxandr.33.11, Alex.155.3; φρυκτά, τά, Hsch.
4. φρυκτή, ἡ, a kind of resin, Gal.13.589, Paul.Aeg.3.59.
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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