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σφύζω , Dor. σφύσδω , only pres. and impf.:—
A.throb, beat violently (cf. σφυγμός), Hp.Epid.2.5.16, 2.6.5, Judic.33, Theoc.11.71.
2. beat, of the pulse, “ς. τὸ αἷμα ἐν ταῖς φλεψί” Arist.HA521a6; πηδῶσα οἷον τὰ σφύζοντα like the veins or arteries, Pl.Phdr.251d; μέρος [“ἐμβρύου] μήτε θερμὸν μήτε σφύζον” Sor.2.63.
3. metaph. of any violent motion, “σφύζοντος καὶ σφαδᾴζοντος καὶ πηδῶντος” Longin.Rh. p.201 H., cf. Dam.Pr.221; ς. ἐπὶ ταῦτα to be very eager after . . , Anon. ap.Suid.
4. prob. f.l. in Thphr.Char.19.6.
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, Phaedrus, 251d
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