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ὑποκαίω , Att. ὑποκαθ-κάω ,
A.burn by applying fire below, “τινὰς ζῶντας” D.S. 20.71, cf. 19.108; burn underneath, “ὀστέα” Hdt.4.61; ξύλα ὑ. τῷ τρίποδι under the tripod, Anon. ap. Eust.1146.37; light sacrificial fires, cf. ὑποκλαίω.
2. light under, “πῦρ” Luc.Phal.1.11:—Pass., Arist.Mete. 355a17.
3. ὑ. λέβητα, [κακκάβην], light a fire under it, Gal.13.37,6.707.
4. heat a bath, PFlor.127.4 (iii A. D.), PGiss.40 ii 19 (iii A. D.).
II. metaph. in Pass., ὑ. τινός to be inflamed by love for . . , Parth.12.1, 23.2; to be inflamed, “φλύκταιναι -όμεναι” Ph.2.101.
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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    • Herodotus, Histories, 4.61
    • Diodorus, Historical Library, 19.108
    • Diodorus, Historical Library, 20.71
    • Parthenius, Narrationes Amatoriae, 12.1
    • Parthenius, Narrationes Amatoriae, 23.2
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