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φλόξ , ἡ, gen. φλογός: (φλέγω):—
A.flame of fire, Od.24.71, etc.; “δεινὴ δὲ φλὸξ ὦρτο θεείου καιομένοιο” Il.8.135; “τῆς δὲ [νηὸς] κατ᾽ ἀσβέστη κέχυτο φλόξ” 16.123; “κατὰ πῦρ ἐκάη καὶ φλὸξ ἐμαράνθη” 9.212; more fully, “φλὸξ Ἡφαίστοιο” Il.17.88, Od. l.c.; “πυρός” Pi.P.4.225, E.Ba.8, Heracl.914 (lyr.), Pl.Ti.83b, etc. (but also “φλογὸς αἰθέριον πῦρ” Parm.8.56); φλογὸς σπέρμα, of live charcoal, Pi.O.7.48; ἀναιθύσσειν, θύειν, E.Tr.344, IT1331; ἐγείρειν, παρακαλεῖν, X. Smp.2.24, Cyr.7.5.23; “ἐμβαλεῖν τινι” E.Alc.4, Rh.120; “σβέσαι” Th.2.77; “φ. ἀπέσσυτο” Hes.Th.859; “ἀπορρέουσα” Pl.Ti.67c; φλογὸς ἀποσβεσθείσης ib.58c: later in pl., flames, meteors, Arist.Mete.341b2, Mu.392b3, 400a30, Orph.L.178, Nic.Fr.74.48.
2. fire as an element, “φλογὸς αἶσα” Parm.12.2; “φ. ἱλάειρα” Emp.85.
3. of other kinds of flame, φ. κεραυνία, οὐρανία, of lightning, A.Pr.1017, E.Med. 144 (anap.); of the heat of the sun, A.Pr.22, Pers.505, S.Tr.696; flash of a miraculous cloud, Il.18.206; of precious stones, “ψυχρὰ φ.” Pi.Fr. 123.5; the blade of a sword, LXX Jd.3.22, Aq., Thd.1 Ki.17.7.
4. in similes and metaphors, φλογὶ εἴκελος, ἶσος, of fiery warriors, Il.13.330, 39; φ. οἴνου the fiery strength of wine, E.Alc.758; “φ. πήματος” S.OT166 (lyr.).
II. wallflower, Cheiranthus Cheiri, Thphr.HP6.6.2.
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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