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ἐκπυ^ρ-όω ,
A.burn to ashes, consume utterly, E.IA1070(lyr.); “ὕδραν” Id.HF421 (lyr.).
2. set on fire, Arist.Mete.341a18.
II. Pass., catch fire, ib.342b2, Onos. 19.3 : a term used in the Stoic philos. to express the tendency of all things to pass into fire, Zeno Stoic.2.182, etc.
2. to be burnt up, “λαμπάσιν κεραυνίαις” E.Ba.244, cf. Corn.ND17.
3. to be much heated, prob. in Hp.Vict.1.25, f.l. in Aph.7.38 ; to become red-hot, Plb.12.25.2.
III. heat, warm, “βαλανεῖα” Philostr.VA1.16.
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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