A.heaves, surges, swirls with dumb swell (i.e. with waves that do not break), Il.14.16, cf. Arat.158, Artem.2.23; “ὑπὸ στείρῃσι θάλασσα πορφύρει” Arat.296; “διάνδιχα νηὸς ἰούσης δίνῃ πορφύροντα διήνυσαν Ἑλλήσποντον” A.R.1.935; of flame, [“φλόγα] φονίῳ σβέσεν αἵματι πορφύρουσαν” Id.4.668:—later in Med., κἂν ἡ γαλήνη πορφύροιτο even in a gently heaving calm, Him.Or.31.2; “εὔδια μὲν πόντος πορφύρεται” AP10.14 (Agath.).
2. metaph., πολλὰ δέ οἱ κραδίη πόρφυρε much was his heart troubled, Il.21.551, cf. Od.4.427,572, 10.309; though others take it trans., his heart brooded, pondered on many things, as in Q.S.2.85, al., Epic. ap. Suid.: abs., ponder, A.R.3.456; π. οἷον . . ib. 1161.
II. after Hom., grow red, of a river, καὶ τὺ δὲ Κρᾶθι οἴνῳ πορφύροις may'st thou flush with wine, Theoc.5.125 (= βλύζοις Sch., i.e. signf. 1.1; prob. both senses are meant); “τόσον ἄνθος χιονέαις πόρφυρε παρηΐσι” Bion 2.19; “αἰδοῖ π. παρήϊον” Q.S.14.47; “πορφύρων βότρυς” AP9.249 (Maec.); δαίδαλα πορφύρων, of the tiger's skin, Opp. C.3.347; of ringlets, “ὑακίνθοις . . ὅμοια πορφύροντες” Luc.Am.26, cf. Him.Or.1.19; γῆ π. ἄνθεσι ib.13.7.
2. trans., dye red, “χεῖρας φόνῳ” Nonn.D.44.106:—Pass., [οἴνῳ] πορφύρετο πέτρη ib.45.308, etc. (πορφυ^ρ-yw, redupl., cogn. with Lat.fervere, fermentum, OE.beorm 'barm, froth on fermenting malt liquors, yeast'; for the sequence of meanings cf. English flush (1) 'flow suddenly in great volume', (2) of blood, 'rush to the cheeks', (3) of the cheeks, etc., 'become red'; cf. πορφύρεος.）
