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θάλλω , Hes.Op.173, h.Cer.402, etc.: aor.1 ἔθηλα （ἀν-) Ael.NA2.25, 9.21: aor. 2
A.“θάλε” h.Hom.19.33; “ἀν-έθαλον” LXX Wi.4.4, Ep.Phil. 4.10: pf. τέθηλα, in Hom. only part. in pres. sense τεθηλώς, Ep. fem. τεθα^λυῖα, and 3sg. plpf. “τεθήλει” Od.5.69; 3sg. ind. “τέθηλε” Hes. Op.227, Emp.77, S.Ph.259; Aeol. and Dor. “τέθα_λα” Sapph.Supp.25.12, Pi.Fr.129.5, B.9.40, IG3.171; subj. τεθήλῃ Epigr. ap. Pl.Phdr. 264d; inf. “τεθηλέναι” Id.Cra.414a; part. τεθα_λώς prob. in A.Supp. 107(lyr.):—Pass., fut. θα^λήσομαι （ἀνα-) AP7.281 (Heraclid.): (cf. θηλέω):—sprout, grow, thrive, esp. of fruit-trees, “ἐρινεὸς . . φύλλοισι τεθηλώς” Od.12.103; τεθήλει δὲ σταφυλῇσι, of a vine, 5.69; ἄνθεσι γαῖα θάλλει h.Cer.l.c.; <“δένδρεα> τέθηλε καρπῶν ἀφθονίῃσι” Emp.77; “ὦ χρυσέᾳ κόμᾳ θάλλων Λοξία” Pi.I.7(6).49; “πώγωνι θάλλων” S.Ichn.358: abs., “καρπὸν τρὶς ἔτεος θάλλοντα” Hes.Op.173; “θάλλει κατ᾽ ἦμαρ αἰεὶ νάρκισσος” S.OC681 (lyr.), etc.: freq. in pf. part., as Adj., luxuriant, “τεθαλυῖά τ᾽ ὀπώρη” Od.11.192; “τεθαλυῖά τ᾽ ἀλωή” 6.293: also, c. acc. cogn., οὐ δένδρε᾽ ἔθαλλεν χῶρος the place grew no trees, Pi.O.3.23, cf. AP9.78 (s.v.l., Leon.); ἐν φύλλοισι θαλλούσης βίον ξανθῆς ἐλαίας (Dind. ἴσον) A.Pers.616; simply, bloom, Thphr.HP1.1.2; but of σίκυοι, etc., “ἡ ἀπὸ τοῦ ὕδατος ἀτμὶς οἷον θάλλοντας παρέχει” Id.CP5.6.5.
b. of other natural objects, τεθαλυῖά τ᾽ ἐέρση copious dew, Od. 13.245; ῥάχιν τεθαλυῖαν ἀλοιφῇ rich with fat, Il.9.208, cf. Od.13.410; εἰλαπίνῃ τεθαλυίῃ at a sumptuous feast, 11.415.
2. of persons, states or conditions, bloom, “θ. ἁπαλὸν χρόα” Archil.100; thrive, flourish, “Εἰρήνη τεθαλυῖα” Hes.Th.902; θάλλοισα εὐδαιμονία, ἀρετά, Pi.P. 7.19, I.5(4).17; “πατρὸς θάλλοντος” S.Ant.703, cf. Ph.420, etc.; ζῶν καὶ θάλλων alive and prosperous, Id.Tr.235; ζῇ καὶ θάλλει [ἡ παίδευσις] Antipho Soph.60; “θάλε πόθος” h.Hom.19.33; “Ἔρως ἐπὶ Χαλκιδέων θάλλει πόλεσιν” Carm.Pop.44; “Ἔρως τότε μὲν θ. τε καὶ ζῇ, ὅταν εὐπορήσῃ, τότε δὲ ἀποθνῄσκει” Pl.Smp.203e; “θ. καὶ εὐδαιμονεῖ χώρα καὶ πόλις” Id.Lg.945d: c. dat. modi, “θάλλουσιν δ᾽ ἀγαθοῖσι” Hes.Op.236; ἀγλαΐῃ τεθαλυῖαι [δμῳαί] Id.Sc.276; τοῖσι (sc. ἀνδράσι）“ τέθηλε πόλις” Id.Op. 227; “πόλις ἐλευθερίᾳ τεθαλυῖα” Simon.102; “θ. ἀρεταῖς” Pi.O.9.16; “ἐλπίδι” B.9.40; “εὐγενεῖ τέκνων σπορᾷ” S.Ant.1164; “παρρησίᾳ” E.Hipp. 422; “δαίμων ἀφθίτῳ θ. βίῳ” Critias25.17D.; “θ. ἐπὶ γυμνάδος ἔργοις” Epigr.Gr.233 (Chios).
3. of disease and the like , in bad sense, to be fresh, active, “ἡ δ᾽ ἐμὴ νόσος ἀεὶ τέθηλε” S.Ph.259; πήματα . . ἀεὶ θάλλοντα μᾶλλον ἢ καταφθίνοντα waxing, Id.El.260; “ἔρις θάλλει” E.Ph.812 (lyr.): c. dat., “ἀφροσύναις θάλλουσ᾽ Ὕβρις” B.14.58.
b. τοῖσι αὐτοῖσιν ὅ τε σπλὴν θάλλει καὶ τὸ σῶμα φθίνει the spleen becomes swollen, Hp. Loc.Hom.24; also τεθηλός (in neutral sense) of the liver, Id.VM22.
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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