A.“ἔφυ_ρον” Il.24.162, A.Pr. 450: fut. “φύρσω” Pi.Pae.2.73, Hsch.: aor. subj. “φύρσω” Od.18.21, inf. “φύρσαι” A.R.2.59; later “ἔφυ_ρα” AP7.476 (Mel.), Luc.Prom.13:— Med., aor. part. “φυρσάμενος” Nic.Th.507:—Pass., fut. “πεφύρσομαι” Pi.N.1.68 codd.; later φυ^ρήσομαι （συμ-) Sch. ad loc.: aor. “ἐφύρθην” A.Ag.732 (lyr.); later aor. 2 ἐφύρην [υ^] （συναν-) Luc.Ep.Sat.28: pf. πέφυρμαι (v. infr.):—mix something dry with something wet, mostly with a sense of mixing so as to spoil or defile, “γαῖαν ὕδει φ.” Hes.Op.61; esp. of tears or blood, δάκρυσιν εἵματ᾽ ἔφυρον they wetted, sullied their garments with tears, Il.24.162: c. gen. pro dat., “μή σε . . στῆθος καὶ χείλεα φύρσω αἵματος” Od.18.21:—Pass., “δάκρυσι πεφυρμένη” 17.103, etc.; “ὄμμα δακρύοις πεφυρμένοι” E.Or.1411 (lyr.); “πεφυρμένος αἵματι” Od.9.397; “γῆ αἵματι πεφ.” X.Ages.2.14; “αἵματι δ᾽ οἶκος ἐφύρθη” A. l.c. (lyr.); “μητρὸς . . ἐν αἵμασι πεφυρμένοι” E.El.1173; “πάντα βορβόρῳ πεφυρμένα” Semon.7.3; “ἱστίον . . πεφυρμένον πρινὸς ἄνθεϊ” stained, dyed, Simon.54: dub. in signf. of φυράω, ἐλαίῳ ἄλφιτα πεφυρμένα, v.l. for πεφυραμένα in Th.3.49; τέφρᾳ πεφυρμένῃ ὄξει, v.l. for πεφυραμένῃ in Gp.5.39.2.
2. of dry things, “κόνει φύρουσα . . κάρα” E.Hec.496; γαίᾳ πεφύρσεσθαι κόμαν to be doomed to have one's hair defiled with earth, Pi. l.c.; “ἄνθος ἔφυρε κόνις” AP7.476 (Mel.).
II. metaph., jumble together, confound, confuse, ἔφυρον εἰκῇ πάντα they mingled all things up together, did all at random, A.Pr.450, cf. Ar.Ra.945, Pl.Phd.97b; (Med., οὐκ ἂν φύροιο would not jumble your arguments, ib.101e); “φύρουσι δ᾽ αὐτὰ θεοὶ πάλιν τε καὶ πρόσω ταραγμὸν ἐντιθέντες” E.Hec.958; ἐν ταῖς ὁμιλίαις φύρειν to speak confusedly among themselves, M.Ant.8.51:—Pass., to be mixed up, “ἐν τῷ αὐτῷ” Pl.Grg.465c, cf. d; βίοτον ἐκ πεφυρμένου καὶ θηριώδους διεσταθμήσατο from a confused and savage state, E.Supp. 201.
2. Med., mix with others, mingle in society, Pl.Lg.950a; φύρεσθαι πρὸς τὸν ἄνθρωπον associate, have dealings with him, Id.Hp. Ma.291a; φυρομένοισιν ἀεὶ περὶ γαστέρος ὁρμήν wallowing in the lusts of the belly, Opp.H.3.440, and cf. “μείγνυμι” B.
3. confound, Pi.Pae.2.73 (expld. by Sch. as = ἀποκτενεῖ).
4. Pass., metaph., to be mutually befouled by abuse, Plu.2.89d. (Prob. cogn. with πορφύρω.）
