A.“-ψω” Orph.Fr.258, Alciphr.2.4: fut. Med. in pass. sense “θάλψομαι” Id.3.42:—heat, soften by heat, Od.21.179, al.:—Pass., “ἐτήκετο κασσίτερος ὣς . . θαλφθείς” Hes.Th.864, cf. S.Tr.697: metaph., to be softened, deceived, “αἴ κε μὴ θαλφθῇ λόγοις” Ar.Eq.210.
II. heat, warm, without any notion of softening, καῦμ᾽ ἔθαλπε (sc. ἡμᾶς) S. Ant.417; θερμὴ ἡμᾶς ἀκτὶς θ. Ar.Av.1092; keep warm, “χλανιδίων ἐρειπίοις θάλπουσα καὶ ψύχουσα” Trag.Adesp.7: prov., θ. τὸν δίφρον, of an idle life, Herod.1.37; “θ. τὰς κοχώνας” Id.7.48; τὴν βαίτην θάλπουσαν εὖ ib.129:—Pass., Hp.Aff.4; θάλπεσθαι τοῦ θέρους to be warm in summer, X.Cyr.5.1.11; “τῷ πυρὶ θάλψομαι” Alciphr.3.42: metaph., ἔτι ἁλίῳ θάλπεσθαι to be alive, Pi.N.4.14.
III. metaph., of passion, heat, inflame, “ἣ Διὸς θάλπει κέαρ ἔρωτι” A.Pr.590, cf. S.Fr.474 (Pass.); “ἔθαλψεν ἄτης σπασμός” Id.Tr. 1082:—Pass., “ἱμέρου βέλει τεθάλφθαι πρός τινος” A.Pr.650; θάλπῃ (2sg.) “ἀνηκέστῳ πυρί” S.El.888; “εἴ σευ θάλπεταί τι τῶν ἔνδον” Herod. 2.81.
2. comfort, “ὕπνος . . θάλπει κέαρ” B.Fr.3.11, cf. Fr.16.2, Com.Adesp.5.16D.; cherish, foster, “ἄλλον θάλπε φίλον” Theoc.14.38; “ὡς ἐὰν τροφὸς θάλπῃ τὰ ἑαυτῆς τέκνα” 1 Ep.Thess.2.7; “τὴν ἑαυτοῦ σάρκα” Ep.Eph.5.29; “τὸ ἀσθενοῦν” Alciphr.2.4; “θ. καὶ τρέφειν” PMasp.6B132 (vi A.D.); τὴν πόλιν θ. tend it with fostering care, OGI194.5 (Egypt, i B.C.).