previous next
θάλπ-ω , fut.
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.
2. warm at the fire, dry, “θάλπεται ῥάκη” S.Ph.38, cf. E.Hel.183 (lyr.).
3. hatch, “ᾠά” Gp.14.1.4: so abs., sit, ib.3; θ. ἐπὶ τῶν νοσσῶν, ἐπὶ τῶν ᾠῶν, LXXDe. 22.6.
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.).
3. ἐμὲ οὐδὲν θ. ἡ δόξα I care nothing for glory, Alciphr.2.2; “ἐμὲ οὐδὲν θ. κέρδος” Aristaenet.1.24.
IV. intr., to be full of heat, vigorous, Arist.Pr.879a33; θάλψαι τρεῖς ποίας to live three summers, AP7.731 (Leon.).
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.

The National Endowment for the Humanities provided support for entering this text.

hide Dictionary Entry Lookup
Use this tool to search for dictionary entries in all lexica.
Search for in
How to enter text in Greek:
hide References (17 total)
  • Cross-references in general dictionaries from this page (17):
    • Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound, 590
    • Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound, 650
    • Aristophanes, Birds, 1092
    • Aristophanes, Knights, 210
    • Euripides, Helen, 183
    • Hesiod, Theogony, 864
    • Homer, Odyssey, 21.179
    • New Testament, 1 Thessalonians, 2.7
    • New Testament, Ephesians, 5.29
    • Sophocles, Antigone, 417
    • Sophocles, Electra, 888
    • Sophocles, Philoctetes, 38
    • Sophocles, Trachiniae, 697
    • Xenophon, Cyropaedia, 5.1.11
    • Sophocles, Ichneutae, 474
    • Sophocles, Trachiniae, 1082
    • Old Testament, Deuteronomy, 22.6
hide Display Preferences
Greek Display:
Arabic Display:
View by Default:
Browse Bar: