A.“ἔκαιον” Od.9.553, Att. ἔκα_ον, Ep. “καῖον” Il. 21.343: fut. “καύσω” X.Cyr.5.4.21, (ἐπι-) Pl.Com.186.4, (κατα-) Ar. Lys.1218; also “καύσομαι” Id.Pl.1054: aor. 1 “ἔκαυσα” Id.Pax1088, Th. 7.80 (bis), Pl.Grg.456b, etc.; Ep. ἔκηα (certain Act. and Med. forms have κει- in codd. of Hom., v. infr.), “ἔκηα” Il.1.40, al.; 3sg. ἔκηε(ν) 22.170, 24.34, al.; unaugm. “κῆεν” 21.349; 3pl. ἔκηαν (v.l. ἔκειαν) Od.22.336; imper. “κεῖον” 21.176 codd.; 1pl. subj. “κείομεν” Il.7.333 (κατα- ), 377, 396 (better attested than κήομεν); opt. κήαι, κήαιεν, 21.336, 24.38; inf. “κῆαι” Od.15.97 (v.l. κεῖαι)“, κατα-κῆαι” 10.533, 11.46, κακκῆαι ib.74 (v.l. κακκεῖαι); part. “κείαντες” 9.231, 13.26, Att. “κέαντες” A.Ag.849, S.El.757, (ἐκ-) E.Rh.97, “ἐκκέας” Ar.Pax1133 (lyr.), “ἐγκέαντι” IG12.374.96,261: pf. κέκαυκα (κατα-, προσ-) X.HG6.5.37, Alex.124.3:—Med., aor. 1 ἐκαυσάμην (ἀν-) Hdt.1.202, 8.19; Ep. κείαντο, κειάμενοι, Il.9.88,234; “κειάμενος” Od.16.2, 23.51:—Pass., fut. “καυθήσομαι” Hp.Nat.Mul.107, (κατα-, ἐκ-) Ar.Nu.1505, Pl.R. 362a; late “κα^ήσομαι” 1 Ep.Cor.3.15: aor. 1 “ἐκαύθην” Hp.Epid.4.4, Int. 28, (κατ-) Hdt.1.19, Th.3.74; Ep. and Ion.aor. 2 ἐκάην [α^] Il.9.212 (κατ-), Od.12.13, (δί-) Hp.Loc.Hom.40, (κατ-) Hdt.2.180; inf. “καήμεναι” Il.<*>3.210, “καῆναι” Parth.9.8: pf. “κέκαυμαι” E.Cyc.457, Th.4.34, etc., “κέκαυσμαι” Hp.Int.28; inf. “κεκαῦσθαι” Arist.Mete.343a9. (From κα^ϝ-yw.)
I. kindle, “πυρὰ πολλά” Il.9.77; “πῦρ κείαντες” Od.9.231; “πῦρ κῆαι” 15.97, etc.:—Med., πῦρ κείαντο they lighted them a fire, Il.9.88, cf. 234, Od.16.2:—Pass., to be lighted, burn, “πυραὶ νεκύων καίοντο” Il.1.52; “θεείου καιομένοιο” 8.135; “καιομένοιο πυρός” 19.376, cf. Hdt.1.86, Ar.V.1372, etc.; “φῶς πυρὸς καόμενον” Pl.R.514b; αἱ φλόγες αἱ καιόμεναι . . περὶ τὸν οὐρανόν the meteors which blaze, Arist.Mete.341b2; of ore, to be smelted, Id.HA552b10.
II. set on fire, burn, μηρία, ὀστέα, Od.9.553, Hes.Th.557; “νεκρούς” Il.21.343; δένδρεα ib. 338:—Pass., “νηυσὶν καιομένῃσιν” 9.602.
2. make hot, of the sun, “ἀνθρώπους” Hdt.3.104: abs., ibid., Pl.Cra.413b; [Χείμαρρος] “ἠελίῳ κεκαυμένος” smelted, AP9.277 (Antiphil.).
3. of extreme cold, “ἡ Χιὼν καίει τῶν κυνῶν τὰς ῥῖνας” X.Cyn.8.2, cf. 6.26 (Pass.); “κάειν λέγεται . . τὸ ψυχρόν, οὐχ ὡς τὸ θερμόν” Arist.Mete.382b8.
4. Pass., of fever-heat, “τὰ ἐντὸς ἐκάετο” Th.2.49: metaph., of passion, esp. of love, to be on fire, “ἐν φρασὶ καιομένα” Pi.P.4.219; “κάομαι τὴν καρδίαν” Ar.Lys.9; “ἔρως . . ὕβρει καόμενος” Pl.Lg.783a; καίεσθαί τινος (sc. ἔρωτι) Hermesian.7.37, Charito 4.6, cf. Parth.14.2; also καομένη Ἑλλάς Greece being in a fever of excitement, Lys.33.7.
III. burn and destroy (in war), τέμνειν καὶ κ., κ. καὶ πορθεῖν, waste with fire and sword, X.HG4.2.15, 6.5.27.
IV. of surgeons, cauterize, “ὤμους” Hp.Art.11:—in Pass., Id.Aph.6.60: abs., τέμνειν καὶ κάειν to use knife and cautery, Pl.Grg.480c,521e, X.An.5.8.18, etc.: rarely reversed, “κέαντες ἢ τεμόντες” A.Ag.849.
V. burn or bake pottery, κανθάρους dub. in Phryn.Com.15.