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προσπτύω , fut. -πτύσω, but
A.“-πτύσομαι” Luc.DMort.20.2:—spit upon, τινι Thphr.Char.19.11, Luc. l.c., etc.; π. τῇ ὄψει in his face, D.L.2.75; “πρὸς τὸ πρόσωπον” Hyp.Fr.98: rarely c. acc., “π. τὸν Ζηνόθεμιν” Luc.Symp.33, cf. Plu.Luc.18: abs., Id.Phoc.36:—Pass., “οἱ προσεπτυσμένοι ὑπὸ τῆς πτυάδος” Philum.Ven.16.4.
2. metaph., “π. τῷ καλῷ” Epicur.Fr.512; ταῖς ἐκ πολυτελείας ἡδοναῖς ib.181.
II. trans., spit forth, “ἰόν” Hierocl. p.13A.; [“τὴν γλῶτταν] αὐτῷ” D.L.9.59; “τὸ σωμάτιον ὅλον προσπτύσας τινὶ ἀπελθεῖν” Arr.Epict.3.24.71.
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 (5):
    • Theophrastus, Characters, 19.11
    • Plutarch, Lucullus, 18
    • Plutarch, Phocion, 36
    • Lucian, Symposium, 33
    • Lucian, Dialogi mortuorum, 20.2
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