A.“σμῦξαι” Hsch.):—Pass., aor. 1 ἐσμύχθην （κατ-) Theoc.8.90; aor. 2 ἐσμύγην [υ^] （ἀπ-) Luc.DMort.6.3: pf. ἔσμυγμαι （κατ-) Hld.7.21:— burn in a slow, smouldering fire, make a thing smoulder away (cf. κατασμύχω): metaph. of grief, “τεῖρ᾽ ὀδύνη σμύχουσα” A.R.3.762; κῆρ ἄχεϊ σμύχουσα ib.446:—Pass., smoulder away, “Ἴλιος πυρὶ σμύχοιτο” Il.22.411; by the fires of love, Mosch.Fr.2.4; by suspicion, Hld. 1.16; “πυρετὸς -όμενος” Gal.11.25; σμύχονται σάρκες are shrivelled, Aret.SD1.8.
σμύχω [υ_], aor. ἔσμυξα （κατ-) Il.9.653, AP5.253 (Paul.Sil.) (simple
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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