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πτήσσω (never πτήν-ττω ), Ar.V.1490, X.Cyr.3.3.18: fut.
A.“πτήξω” AP 12.141 codd. (Mel.): aor. “ἔπτηξα” E.HF974, etc., Dor. “ἔπταξα” Pi.P. 4.57, Ep. “πτῆξα” Il.14.40: aor. 2 ἔπτα^κον in compd. “καταπτακών” A.Eu. 252; Ep. 3dual “καταπτήτην” Il.8.136: pf. “ἔπτηχα” Isoc.5.58, (κατ-) Lycurg.40, D.4.8; later ἔπτηκα （κατ-) Them.Or.24.309b; Ep.part. πεπτηώς, ῶτος (v.infr.11.2).
I. Causal, scare, alarm, “πτῆξε θυμὸν ἐνὶ στήθεσσιν Ἀχαιῶν” Il.14.40; “ἐχθροὺς πτῆξαι” Thgn.1015.
II. intr., crouch or cower for fear, of animals, “ἅπερ πτηνῶν ἀγέλαι τάχ᾽ ἂν σιγῇ πτήξειαν ἄφωνοι” S.Aj.171 (anap.); “πτήξας δέμας παρεῖχε” A.Pers.209; [“πῶλος] π. αἰσχύνῃσιν” S.Fr.659.9, cf. Ar.Av.777; of human beings, “ἔπταξαν ἀκίνητοι σιωπᾷ” Pi.P.4.57; ὑπὸ φόβῳ π. E.Ba.1035 (lyr.); “πτῆξαι ταπεινήν” Id.Andr.165; “π. θυμόν” S.OC1466 (lyr.); κακῶς πάσχων π. Pl.Smp.184b; “δοκεῖ μοι τοῦ αὐτοῦ ἀνδρὸς εἶναι καὶ εὐτυχοῦντα ἐξυβρίσαι καὶ πταίσαντα . . πτῆξαι” X.Cyr.3.1.26; ἐκποδὼν π. Ar.Th.36: with Preps., “π. ἐν μυχοῖς πέτρας” E.Cyc.408; “εἰς ἕνα χῶρον” Ar.Lys.770; πόλις πρὸς πόλιν π. E.Supp.269; “βωμὸν ὄρνις ὣς ἔπτηξ᾽ ὕπο” Id.HF 974: c. acc. loci, βωμὸν π. Id.Ion1280.
2. crouch, of men in ambush, “νῷν εἰς ἐρημίαν ὁδοῦ” Id.Andr.753; “ὑπὸ τεύχεσι πεπτηῶτες” Od.14.474.
3. c. acc. rei, crouch for fear of . . , “ἀπειλάς” A.Pr.175 (anap.); “φοβούμενοι πτήσσομεν αὐτούς” X.Cyr.3.3.18; “ταῖς διανοίαις μὴ πτήξαντες τὸν τῶν ἐπιόντων φόβον” Lycurg.49; “δόρυ” Lyc.280, IG14.1296: abs., “ὁ λέων . . ὁρώμενος . . οὐδέποτε φεύγει οὐδὲ πτήσσει” Arist. HA629b13.
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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