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φλύω [υ_. cf. ἐπιφλύω] and φλύζω , aor. 1 ἔφλυ^σα v. infr. 11: (φλέω):—
A.boil over, bubble up: hence, burst out, ἐν τῇσι φλυζούσῃσι αἱμορραγίῃσι (Foes for σφύζουσι αἱμορραγέσι) Hp.Epid.2.3.14, cf. Hsch., Suid.; φλύω expld. by πολυκαρπέω, Ael.VH3.41.
II. metaph., overflow with words, babble, “μάτην φλύσαι” A.Pr.504; “γράμματα ἐπ᾽ ἀσπίδος φλύοντα” Id.Th.661: c.acc. cogn., “φήμην στυγερὴν ἔφλυ^σεν” AP7.351 (Diosc.); ἔφλυ^σε v.l. for ἔβλυσε, ib.352 (Mel.(?)); “μανίης ὕπο μυρία φλύζειν” Nic.Al.214; φλύοντ᾽ ἀνθηρῇ σὺν κακοδαιμονίῃ prob. in Alex.Aet.5.8:—Med. or Pass., φλύεται, = ὑγραίνεται, Hp. ap.Gal.19.152.
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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