A.gulp down, “ἐμπίδας” Ar.Av.245 (lyr.), cf. Sophr.64; [ἄλφιτα] Nicocl.2; of liquids, Xenarch.9 codd. Ath., Arist.HA593a21; ἀφρόν ib.620a13; “κ. αὔρας” Eub.10: c. gen. partit., “κ. τῶν θυλημάτων” Telecl. 33: abs., ἄχρις ἑσπέρης κ. Herod.7.41; expressing greater greediness than φαγεῖν, Ar.Ec.687; “ἡ ἄρκτος οὐδὲ σπάσει οὐδὲ λάψει ἀλλὰ κάψει” Arist.HA595a10: metaph., “σευ τὸ ὥριον τέφρη κάψει” Herod.1.38. (Cogn. with Lat. capio, Germ. haben, Heft.）
κάπτω , fut. κάψω (v. infr.),
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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