Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, A Greek-English Lexicon

A.“-ήσω” Gp. 17.5.3 : aor. οἴστρησα (Elmsl. ᾤστρησα) E.Ba.32, cf. Choerob. in Theod. 2.50 H.; part. οἰστρήσας (v. infr.) :—Pass. (v. infr.):—sting. prop. of the gadfly (οἶστρος): hence, metaph., sting to madness, αὐτὰς ἐκ δόμων ᾤστρησα I drove them raging out of the house, E.l.c.: —Pass., “οἰστρηθείς” driven mad, S.Tr.653, E.Ba.119 (both lyr.); of sexual passion, “οἰστρημένος ὑπὸ τοῦ ἔρωτος” Iamb.VP31.195 ; “εἰς μεῖξιν” Ael.NA15.9, cf. Luc.Asin.33.

II. intr., go mad, rage, of Io driven by the gadfly, “οἰστρήσασα” in frenzy, frantically, A.Pr.836 ; of Menelaus, “καθ᾽ Ἑλλάδ᾽ οἰστρήσας” E.IA77 ; of the tunny when attacked by the οἶστρος (1.2), Arist.HA602a26, cf. 598a18 : metaph., “ἡ ψυχὴ οἰστρᾷ καὶ ὀδυνᾶται” Pl.Phdr.251d, cf. R.573e ; “τοῖς οἰστρῶσιν” Id.Tht.179e ; “οἰστρῶντι πόθῳ” Men.312.