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βάπτω , fut. βάψω （ἐμ-) Ar.Pax959: aor.
A.“ἔβαψα” S.Aj.95, etc.:— Med., fut. “βάψομαι” Ar.Lys.51: aor. “ἐβαψάμην” Arat.951, AP9.326 (Leon.):—Pass., fut. “βα^φήσομαι” LXXLe.11.32, M.Ant.8.51: aor. “ἐβάφθην” AP6.254 (Myrin.), (ἀπ-) Ar.Fr.416; in Att. generally ἐβάφην [α^] Pl.R.429e, etc.: pf. “βέβαμμαι” Hdt.7.67, Ar.Pax1176.
I. trans., dip, ὡς δ᾽ ὅτ᾽ ἀνὴρ χαλκεὺς πέλεκυν . . εἰν ὕδατι ψυχρῷ βάπτῃ (so as to temper the red-hot steel) Od.9.392; “β. εἰς ὕδωρ” Pl.Ti.73e, cf. Emp.100.11; “τἄρια θερμῷ” Ar.Ec.216; εἰς μέλι, εἰς κηρόν, Arist.HA 605a29, de An.435a2:—Pass., βαπτόμενος σίδηρος iron in process of being tempered, Plu.2.136a; and of coral, become hard, Dsc.5.121 (s. v. l.).
b. of slaughter in Trag , “ἐν σφαγαῖσι βάψασα ξίφος” A.Pr. 863; “ἔβαψας ἔγχος εὖ πρὸς Ἀργείων στρατῷ;” S.Aj.95; “φάσγανον εἴσω σαρκὸς ἔβαψεν” E.Ph.1578 (lyr.); in later Prose, “εἰς τὰ πλευρὰ β. τὴν αἰχμήν” D.H.5.15; “β. τὸν δάκτυλον ἀπὸ τοῦ αἵματος” LXXLe.4.17.
c. also, dip in poison, “ἔβαψεν ἰούς” S.Tr.574; χιτῶνα τόνδ᾽ ἔβαψα ib.580.
2. dye, ἔβαψεν . . ξίφος the sword dyed [the robe] red, A.Ch.1011; β. τὰ κάλλη dye the beautiful cloths, Eup.333; “β. ἔρια ὥστ᾽ εἶναι ἁλουργά” Pl.R.429d; “εἵματα βεβαμμένα” Hdt.7.67; “τρίχας βάπτειν” AP11.68 (Lucill.): abs. in Med., dye the hair, Men.363.4, Nicol.Com.1.33; glaze earthen vessels, Ath.11.480e; of gilding and silvering, Ps.-Democr.Alch.p.46 B.: Com., βάπτειν τινὰ βάμμα Σαρδιανικόν dye one in the [red] dye of Sardes, i. e. give him a bloody coxcomb, Ar. Ach.112; but βέβαπται β. Κυζικηνικόν he has been dyed in the dye of Cyzicus, i. e. is an arrant coward, Id.Pax1176 (v. Sch.).
3. draw water by dipping a vessel, “ἀνθ᾽ ὕδατος τᾷ κάλπιδι κηρία βάψαι” Theoc. 5.127; ἀρύταιναν . . ἐκ μέσου βάψασα τοῦ λέβητος ζέοντος ὕδατος draw water by dipping the bucket, Antiph.25, cf. Thphr.Char.9.8; βάψασα ποντίας ἁλός (sc. τὸ τεῦχος) having dipped it so as to draw water from the sea, E.Hec.610.
4. baptize, Arr.Epict.2.9.20 (Pass.).
II. intr., ναῦς ἔβαψεν the ship dipped, sank, E.Or.707; β. εἰς ψυχρὸν [αἱ ἐγχέλυς] Arist.HA592a18; εἰ δ᾽ ὁ μὲν (sc. ἠέλιος）“ ἀνέφελος βάπτοι ῥόου ἑσπερίοιο” Arat.858 (ῥόον Sch.): c. acc., νῆα . . βάπτουσαν ἤδη κῦμα κυρτόν dipping into . . , Babr.71.2:—also Med., “ποταμοῖο ἐβάψατο” Arat. 951.
2. βάψας (sc. τὴν κώπην) Ar.Fr.225. (Cf. O Norse kuefia 'dip'.)
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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