I.to burn with fire, burn up, Hdt., Soph.: to burn as a burnt sacrifice, Aesch., Eur.; π. Κύκλωπος ὄψιν to burn out his eye, Eur.:—Mid., παῖδα πυρωσαμένη having placed one's son on the pyre, Anth.:—Pass. to set on fire, to be burnt, Pind., Eur.
2.metaph. in Pass. to be inflamed or excited, Aesch.
II.Pass. also, of gold, to be proved or tested by fire, NTest.
III.to fumigate, Theocr.