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θηριόω ,
A.make into a wild beast, “τοὺς πρὸς αὐτὴν ἀφικνουμένους ἡ Κίρκη θηριοῖ” Phld.Piet.144:—Pass., IG14.1291.
II. Pass., come to the full size of a beast, “πρὶν θηριοῦσθαι τὸν γόνον” Eub.107.14.
2. become brutal, “θηριούμενος” Pl.Lg.935a; “πρός τινας” Phld.Lib.p.25O.; “πρὸς ἀγριότητα” Ph.2.53.
3. of seeds, to be infested with worms, Thphr. CP5.18.1.
b. of places, to be infested with reptiles, Paul.Aeg. 5.1.
4. Medic., become malignant, “ἕλκη ἐᾶσαι θηριωθῆναι” Thphr. Char.19.3; “τεθηριωμένον ἕλκος” Dsc.3.9.
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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    • Plato, Laws, 935a
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