A.“τέγξω” Pi.O.4.19, E.Supp.979 (lyr.): aor. “ἔτεγξα” B.5.157, A.Pr.402 (lyr.), Hp.Nat.Mul.35:—Pass., aor. “ἐτέγχθην” S.Ph.1456 (anap.), Pl.Lg.880e:—wet, moisten, τέγγε πλεύμονας οἴνῳ Alc.l.c.; “ἀκρήτῳ πνεύμονα τεγγόμενος” Eratosth.25; οἴνῳ πνεύμονα τέγγε Poet. ap. Suid. s.v. τέγγε; τέγγει γὰρ [τὸ ἔλαιον] τὸν ξηρὸν χρῶτα Gal. 6.229, cf. 366,560, 15.714; esp. of internal moistening by liquid food, opp. βρέχω (moisten on the surface), Id.10.808, 12.186 (the word is not freq. in Prose); φάρεα ποταμίᾳ δρόσῳ τ., so as to wash them, E. Hipp.127 (lyr.); “ἐν θαλάττῃ τ. τοὺς πόδας” Pl.Lg.866d:—in Trag. and Lyr. freq. of tears, “δάκρυσι κόλπους τέγγουσι” A.Pers.540 (anap.); “ἀπ᾽ ὄσσων παρειὰν νοτίοις ἔτεγξα παγαῖς” Id.Pr.402 (lyr.); ὄμμ
τέγγω , Alc.39, etc.: fut.
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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