A.luxuriant, flourishing, “ὕλη τηλεθόωσα” Il.6.148; “ἔρνος τηλεθάον” 17.55; “ἐλαῖαι τηλεθόωσαι” Od.11.590; “δένδρεα τηλεθόωντα” 7.114: metaph., παῖδες τηλεθάοντες blooming sons, Il.22. 423; χαίτη τηλεθόωσα luxuriant hair, 23.142; “ἄστεα τηλεθάοντα” Emp. 112.7: c. dat., κισσὸς ἄνθεσι τ. blooming with flowers, h.Hom.7.41.
τηλεθάω , lengthd. for θάλλω (cf. τέθηλα, θηλέω, θαλέθω), used only in pres., and (exc. in Theoc.Ep.4.6, and late Ep., as D.P. 836) only in part.,
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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