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πρήθω , impf. ἔπρηθον （ἐν-): aor. ἔπρησα (v. infr.): —Pass., pf. πέπρησμαι: aor. ἐπρήσθην (v. infr.): A.R. seems to use πρήσοντα, πρήσοντος as pres. part., 4.819, 1537: (for the signf.
A.burn, v. πίμπρημι; cf. also ἐμπρήθω, πρηστήρ):—Ep. Verb (rarely if ever in Com., v. infr.), blow out, swell out by blowing, “ἔπρησεν δ᾽ ἄνεμος μέσον ἱστίον” Od.2.427; “ἐν δ᾽ ἄνεμος πρῆσεν μέσον ἱστίον” Il.1.481; “νότου πρήσαντος ἅλα” AP13.27 (Phal.); “πρῆσαι γαστέρα” LXXNu.5.22 :—Pass., ἐπρήσθη dub. in Amphis 30.10; “κοιλία πεπρησμένη” LXX Nu.5.21; “πέπρησται ἱστία” Ael.NA2.17; “λαίφεα πρησθέντα” Q.S.14.416.
2. spout, τὸ δ᾽ [αἷμα] ἀνὰ στόμα καὶ κατὰ ῥῖνας πρῆσε he spouted blood from his mouth and nostrils, Il.16.350.
3. blow into a flame, π. πυρὸς μένος, of Hephaestus, A.R.4.819.
II. intr., blow, ib.1537.
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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  • Cross-references in general dictionaries from this page (8):
    • Homer, Iliad, 16.350
    • Homer, Iliad, 1.481
    • Homer, Odyssey, 2.427
    • Old Testament, Numbers, 5.22
    • Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica, 4.1537
    • Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica, 4.819
    • Old Testament, Numbers, 5.21
    • Aelian, De Natura Animalium, 2.17
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