A.“ἀστράπτεσκον” Mosch.2.86: fut. “ἀστράψω” Cratin.53, Nonn.D.33.376: aor. “ἤστραψα” Il.17.595, etc.:—lighten, hurl lightnings, freq. of omens sent by Zeus, “ἀστράπτων ἐπιδέξι᾽” Il.2.353; “Κρονίδης ἐνδέξια σήματα φαίνων ἀστράπτει” 9.237; “ὡς δ᾽ ὅτ᾽ ἂν ἀστράπτῃ πόσις Ἥρης” 10.5; “ἀστράψας δὲ μάλα μεγάλ᾽ ἔκτυπε” 17.595; “οὑλύμπιος ἤστραπτεν, ἐβρόντα” Ar.Ach.531, cf. V. 626.
2. impers., ἀστράπτει it lightens, ἤστραψε it lightened, “οὐρανοῦ δ᾽ ἄπο ἤστραψε” S.Fr.578, cf. Arist.Rh.1392b27.
II. flash or glance like lightning, “πᾶς γὰρ ἀστράπτει χαλινός” S.OC1067 (lyr.); κατάχαλκον ἀ. πεδίον gleams with brass, E.Ph.III; so “ἀ. χαλκῷ” X. Cyr.6.4.1; of the face, “εἶδον τὴν ὄψιν . . ἀστράπτουσαν” Pl.Phdr.254b; “ἀ. τοῖς ὄμμασι” X.Cyn.6.15; of flowers, “ἀνεμωνίδες ἀστράπτουσαι” bright, Nic.Fr.74.64: c. acc. cogn., ἐξ ὀμμάτων δ᾽ ἤστραπτε . . σέλας (sc. Τυφών) flashed flame from his eyes, A.Pr.358; “ἵμερον ἀστράπτουσα κατ᾽ ὄμματος” AP12.161 (Asclep.), cf. Mosch. l.c.; “ἤστραψε γλυκὺ κάλλος” AP12.110 (Mel.).
III. trans., consume with lightning, dub. in Cratin.53.
2. illuminate, τι Musae.276.