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φυρ-άω , 3pl.
A.φυρῶσιHdt.2.36: fut. -άσω [α_] A.Th.48: aor. “ἐφύρα_σαPl.Ti.73e, Ion. “-ησαHp.Fist.10: pf. “πεφύρα_καCic.Att.6.4.3, 6.5.1:—Med., aor. “ἐφυρα_σάμηνAr.Nu.979 (anap.); Ion. “-ησάμηνNic.Th.932:—Pass., aor. ἐφυράθην [α_] Pl. Tht.147c, APl.4.191 (Nicaen.); Ion. “-ήθηνAP7.748 (Antip.Sid.): pf. πεφύραμαι, Ion. -ημαι (v. infr.):—lengthd. form of φύρω (but almost limited to the sense of mixing flour and similar substances), “φ. τὸ σταῖς τοῖσι ποσίHdt. l.c.; “οἴνῳ φυρήσαςHp. l.c., cf. PHolm.4.9; εἰς ὕδωρ φ. ib.6.18; φ. μετὰ ὑδραργύρου ib.4.35; “μᾶζαν φ.Hp. Vict.2.40; “οἱ φυρῶντεςbread-kneaders, X.HG7.2.22; γῆν τήνδε φυράσειν φόνῳ to make earth into a bloody paste, A. l.c.; “γῆν . . ἐφύρασε καὶ ἔδευσε μυελῷPl.Ti.73e: Pass., “ἄρτος πολλῷ ὕδατι πεφυρημένοςHp.VM14; ἰσχυρῶς πεφ. ibid.; οἴνῳ καὶ ἐλαίῳ ἄλφιτα πεφυραμένα (v.l. πεφυρμένα) Th.3.49; “γῆ ὑγρῷ φυραθεῖσα πηλὸς ἂν εἴηPl.Tht. 147c.
2. metaph., μαλακὴν φυρασάμενος τὴν φωνὴν πρὸς τὸν ἐραστὴν ἐβάδιζεν making one's voice supple, i.e. soft, towards one's lover, Ar. l.c.; πολέεσσι πεφύρησαι χαλεποῖσι, θυμέ art confounded by . . Philet.7.1; πεφυρακέναι τὰς ψήφους to have cooked the accounts, Cic. Il. cc.
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  • Cross-references in general dictionaries from this page (11):
    • Cicero, Letters to Atticus, 6.4.3
    • Cicero, Letters to Atticus, 6.5.1
    • Aeschylus, Seven Against Thebes, 48
    • Herodotus, Histories, 2.36
    • Plato, Theaetetus, 147c
    • Plato, Timaeus, 73e
    • Xenophon, Hellenica, 7.2.22
    • Aristophanes, Clouds, 979
    • Hippocrates, De fistulis, 10
    • Hippocrates, De prisca medicina, 14
    • Thucydides, Histories, 3.49
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