the meteors

καίω, [dialect] Att. [full] κάω [pron. full] [ᾱ], [tense] impf.

A

ἔκαιον Od.9.553

, [dialect] Att. ἔκᾱον, [dialect] Ep.

καῖον Il. 21.343

: [tense] fut.

καύσω X.Cyr.5.4.21

, ([etym.] ἐπι-) Pl.Com.186.4, ([etym.] κατα-) Ar. Lys. 1218; also

καύσομαι Id.Pl. 1054

: [tense] aor. 1

ἔκαυσα Id. Pax 1088

, Th. 7.80 (bis), Pl.Grg. 456b, etc.; [dialect] Ep. ἔκηα (certain [voice] Act. and [voice] Med. forms have κει- in codd. of Hom., v. infr.),

ἔκηα Il.1.40

, al.; [ per.] 3sg. ἔκηε ([etym.] ν) 22.170, 24.34, al.; unaugm.

κῆεν 21.349

; [ per.] 3pl. ἔκηαν (v.l. ἔκειαν) Od.22.336; imper.

κεῖον 21.176

codd.; [ per.] 1pl. subj.

κείομεν Il.7.333

([pref] κατα-), 377, 396 (better attested than κήομεν); opt. κήαι, κήαιεν, 21.336, 24.38; inf.

κῆαι Od.15.97

(v.l. κεῖαι)

, κατα-κῆαι 10.533

, 11.46, κακκῆαι ib.74 (v.l. κακκεῖαι); part.

κείαντες 9.231

, 13.26, [dialect] Att.

κέαντες A.Ag. 849

, S.El. 757, ([etym.] ἐκ-) E.Rh.97,

ἐκκέας Ar. Pax 1133

(lyr.),

ἐγκέαντι IG12.374.96

,261: [tense] pf. κέκαυκα ([etym.] κατα-, προς-) X.HG6.5.37, Alex.124.3:—[voice] Med., [tense] aor. 1 ἐκαυσάμην ([etym.] ἀν-) Hdt.1.202, 8.19; [dialect] Ep. κείαντο, κειάμενοι, Il.9.88, 234;

κειάμενος Od.16.2

, 23.51:—[voice] Pass., [tense] fut.

καυθήσομαι Hp.Nat.Mul. 107

, ([etym.] κατα-, ἐκ-) Ar.Nu. 1505, Pl.R. 362a; late

κᾰήσομαι 1 Ep.Cor.3.15

: [tense] aor. 1

ἐκαύθην Hp.Epid.4.4

, Int. 28, ([etym.] κατ-) Hdt.1.19, Th.3.74; [dialect] Ep. and [dialect] Ion.[tense] aor. 2 ἐκάην [pron. full] [ᾰ] Il.9.212 ([etym.] κατ-), Od.12.13, ([etym.] δί-) Hp.Loc.Hom.40, ([etym.] κατ-) Hdt.2.180; inf.

καήμεναι Il.

<*>3.210,

καῆναι Parth.9.8

: [tense] pf.

κέκαυμαι E.Cyc. 457

, Th.4.34, etc.,

κέκαυσμαι Hp.Int.28

; inf.

κεκαῦσθαι Arist.Mete. 343a9

. (From κᾰϝ-yw.)

I kindle,

πυρὰ πολλά Il.9.77

;

πῦρ κείαντες Od.9.231

;

πῦρ κῆαι 15.97

, etc.:—[voice] Med., πῦρ κείαντο they lighted them a fire, Il.9.88, cf. 234, Od.16.2:—[voice] Pass., to be lighted, burn,

πυραὶ νεκύων καίοντο Il.1.52

;

θεείου καιομένοιο 8.135

;

καιομένοιο πυρός 19.376

, cf. Hdt.1.86, Ar.V. 1372, etc.;

φῶς πυρὸς καόμενον Pl.R. 514b

; αἱ φλόγες αἱ καιόμεναι.. περὶ τὸν οὐρανόν the meteors which blaze, Arist.Mete. 341b2; of ore, to be smelted, Id.HA 552b10.

II set on fire, burn, μηρία, ὀστέα, Od.9.553, Hes.Th. 557;

νεκρούς Il.21.343

; δένδρεα ib. 338:—[voice] Pass.,

νηυσὶν καιομένῃσιν 9.602

.

2 make hot, of the sun,

ἀνθρώπους Hdt.3.104

: abs., ibid., Pl.Cra. 413b; [ Χείμαρρος]

ἠελίῳ κεκαυμένος

smelted,

AP9.277

(Antiphil.).

3 of extreme cold,

ἡ Χιὼν καίει τῶν κυνῶν τὰς ῥῖνας X.Cyn.8.2

, cf. 6.26 ([voice] Pass.);

κάειν λέγεται.. τὸ ψυχρόν, οὐχ ὡς τὸ θερμόν Arist.Mete. 382b8

.

4 [voice] Pass., of fever-heat,

τὰ ἐντὸς ἐκάετο Th.2.49

: metaph., of passion, esp. of love, to be on fire,

ἐν φρασὶ καιομένα Pi.P.4.219

;

κάομαι τὴν καρδίαν Ar.Lys.9

;

ἔρως.. ὕβρει καόμενος Pl.Lg. 783a

; καίεσθαί τινος (sc. ἔρωτι) Hermesian.7.37, Charito 4.6, cf. Parth.14.2; also καομένη Ἑλλάς Greece being in a fever of excitement, Lys.33.7.

5 suffer from inflammation,

ἐκαύθη ἔσω Hp.Epid.4.20

, cf. 4.

III burn and destroy (in war), τέμνειν καὶ κ., κ. καὶ πορθεῖν, waste with fire and sword, X.HG4.2.15, 6.5.27.

IV of surgeons, cauterize,

ὤμους Hp.Art.11

:—in [voice] Pass., Id.Aph.6.60: abs., τέμνειν καὶ κάειν to use knife and cautery, Pl.Grg. 480c, 521e, X.An.5.8.18, etc.: rarely reversed,

κέαντες ἢ τεμόντες A.Ag. 849

.

V burn or bake pottery, κανθάρους dub. in Phryn.Com.15.

ἀστήρ, έρος, ὁ (Hom.+; ins, a few times in astron. and magic. pap [e.g. PGM 4, 574; 580; 2891; 2894; 2939], LXX, pseudepigr., Philo [e.g. Plant. 12 ἀστέρες as living beings endowed w. reason], apolog., loanw. in rabb.) a luminous body (other than the sun) visible in the sky, star, single star, planet (Achilles, Comm. in Arat. p. 41 ἀστήρ ἐστιν εἷς ἀριθμῷ; schol. on Pind., O. 1, 9d) IEph 19:2. Of the star of the Magi Mt 2:2, 7, 9f; GJs 21:1; περὶ τοῦ ἀ. vs. 2; εἶδον ἀστέρας … καὶ προῆγαν αὐτούς vs. 3 (pap). (FBoll, ZNW 18, 1918, 40–48. Diod S 16, 66, 3: a marvelous, divinely sent heavenly body leads the fleet of Timoleon toward Italy. When he and his companions noticed this heavenly manifestation, περιχαρεῖς ἦσαν [16, 66, 5].—On the star s. μάγος 1.) Falling fr. heaven in the last tribulation Mt 24:29; Mk 13:25; Rv 6:13 (all three Is 13:10; cp. Artem. 2, 36 p. 137, 15 καταπίπτοντες εἰς γῆν οἱ ἀστέρες). Single stars 8:10; 9:1 (cp. Artem. 5, 23 τ. οὐρανοῦ ἀστέρα ἐκπεσεῖν; Ps.-Callisth. 3, 33, 26: at the death of Alexander μέγας ἀστὴρ πεσὼν ἐκ τ. οὐρανοῦ ἐπὶ τὴν θάλασσαν.—Boll, Offb. 135). Changed at Christ’s parousia B 15:5. W. sun and moon (Dt 4:19; TestNapht 3:2) 1 Cor 15:41; Rv 8:12; 12:1 (Eratosth. 33 ἔχει ἀστέρας ἐπὶ τ. κεφαλῆς); 1 Cl 20:3; B 15:5. Of the stars as numberless (Gen 22:17; 1 Ch 27:23 al.) 1 Cl 10:6 (Gen 15:5); 32:2 (Gen 22:17).—As to the seven stars that the Son of Man holds in his right hand Rv 1:16; 2:1; 3:1, it has been conjectured that the imagery is based on a constellation, prob. that of the Great Bear (Strabo 1, 1, 21 τοὺς ἑπτὰ τῆς μεγάλης ἄρκτου ἀστέρας; almost the same thing in Diod S 3, 48, 1.—Philo, Op. M. 114, Leg. All. 1, 8; PGM 4, 700; ADieterich, Mithraslit. 1903, 14; 16f; 72f; Boll, Offb. 21f). In 1:20 they are interpr. to mean the ἄγγελοι (PGM 1, 74f star=angel; cp. 154; Chrysipp., Stoic. II 1076 and Diod S 2, 30, 6 stars=gods; En 18:14=heavenly beings) of the seven churches, by which are meant the guardian angels (so fr. Origen, Hom. 12 and 13 In Luc., De Orat. 11, to Bousset, Charles, Lohmeyer; JSickenberger, Röm. Quartalschr. 35, 1927, 135–49), not overseers/bishops (Primasius and Bede to Zahn, JWeiss, Billerb., Allo.—ἀ. to designate a prominent pers.: Plut., Marcell. 316 [30, 8] ὁ μέγας πατρίδος ἀ.). ἀ. ὁ πρωϊνός the morning star (Venus) likened to Christ 22:16; δώσω αὐτῷ τὸν ἀ. τὸν πρωϊνόν 2:28 (on both passages s. Boll, Offb. 47–50). Other pass. that associate pers. w. celestial bodies—a practice going back largely, as some hold, to Babyl. apocalyptic—are 8:11, 12; 12:1, 4, which also contain the word ἀ.—ἀστέρες πλανῆται wandering stars (Cicero, De Nat. Deor. of stars ‘quae falso vocantur errantes’), perh. meteors, typical of dissident teachers Jd 13 (cp. En 18:14; also chap. 21).—FBoll, Sternglaube u. Sterndeutung⁴ ’31 (lit.); EZimer, Sternglaube u. Sternforschung ’53.—B. 56. 1530–40. DELG. EDNT. M-M. TW.

φλόξ, ἡ, gen. φλογός: ([etym.] φλέγω):—

A flame of fire, Od.24.71, etc.;

δεινὴ δὲ φλὸξ ὦρτο θεείου καιομένοιο Il.8.135

;

τῆς δὲ [νηὸς] κατ' ἀσβέστη κέχυτο φλόξ 16.123

;

κατὰ πῦρ ἐκάη καὶ φλὸξ ἐμαράνθη 9.212

; more fully,

φλὸξ Ἡφαίστοιο Il.17.88

, Od. l.c.;

πυρός Pi.P.4.225

, E.Ba.8, Heracl. 914 (lyr.), Pl.Ti. 83b, etc. (but also

φλογὸς αἰθέριον πῦρ Parm.8.56

); φλογὸς σπέρμα, of live charcoal, Pi.O.7.48; ἀναιθύσσειν, θύειν, E.Tr. 344, IT 1331; ἐγείρειν, παρακαλεῖν, X. Smp.2.24, Cyr.7.5.23;

ἐμβαλεῖν τινι E.Alc.4

, Rh. 120;

σβέσαι Th.2.77

;

φ. ἀπέσσυτο Hes.Th. 859

;

ἀπορρέουσα Pl.Ti. 67c

; φλογὸς ἀποσβεσθείσης ib. 58c: later in pl., flames, meteors, Arist.Mete. 341b2, Mu. 392b3, 400a30, Orph.L. 178, Nic.Fr.74.48.

2 fire as an element,

φλογὸς αἶσα Parm.12.2

;

φ. ἱλάειρα Emp.85

.

3 of other kinds of flame, φ. κεραυνία, οὐρανία, of lightning, A.Pr. 1017, E.Med. 144 (anap.); of the heat of the sun, A.Pr.22, Pers. 505, S.Tr. 696; flash of a miraculous cloud, Il.18.206; of precious stones,

ψυχρὰ φ. Pi.Fr. 123.5

; the blade of a sword, LXX Jd.3.22, Aq., Thd.1 Ki.17.7.

4 in similes and metaphors, φλογὶ εἴκελος, ἶσος, of fiery warriors, Il.13.330, 39; φ. οἴνου the fiery strength of wine, E.Alc. 758;

φ. πήματος S.OT 166

(lyr.).

II wallflower, Cheiranthus Cheiri, Thphr.HP6.6.2.

ἐκπίπτω, [tense] fut. - πεσοῦμαι: [tense] aor. ἐξέπεσον: [tense] pf. ἐκπέπτωκα:—

A fall out of,

δίφρου Il.5.585

;

ἵππων 11.179

;

ἀντύγων ἄπο E.Ph. 1193

, etc.: c. dat. pers.,

τόξον δέ οἱ ἔκπεσε χειρός Il.15.465

; θαλερὸν δέ οἱ ἔκπεσε δάκρυ fell from his eyes, 2.266 : abs., fall out, 23.467 ; fall down, of trees, Thphr.HP9.2.7 ;

οἱ λεγόμενοι ἀστέρες ἐκπίπτειν

meteors,

Epicur. Ep.2p.54U.

—After Hom., in various relations, freq. as [voice] Pass. of ἐκβάλλω :

1 of seafaring men, to be cast ashore,

ἐκ δ' ἔπεσον θυμηγερέων Od.7.283

;

ἐ. τῇσι νηυσὶ ἐς Ἰηπυγίην Hdt.3.138

;

πρὸς τὰς πέτρας Id.8.13

;

πρὸς πέτραις E.Hel. 1211

; ναυαγὸν ἐ. ib. 539 ;

ἐ. πρὸς τὴν χώραν Pl.Lg. 866d

; of things, suffer shipwreck, X.An.7.5.13 ; of fish, to be cast up, Arist.HA 601b32.

2 fall from a thing, i.e. be deprived of it,

ἐκ πολλῶν καὶ εὐδαιμόνων ἐς πτωχηΐην Hdt.3.14

, cf.Lys.Fr.1.1 ; τυραννίδος, ἀρχῆς, A.Pr. 756, 757 ;

[ἀπὸ] τῶν ἐλπίδων Th.8.81

;

ἐκ τῆς δόξης Isoc.5.64

;

τῶν ὑπαρχόντων Phld.Ir.p.51

W.

3 to be driven out,

[ἐκ τῆς ἀκροπόλιος] Hdt.5.72

; to be banished,

ἐ. ἐκ τῆς πατρίδος Id.1.150

, cf. 6.121 ;

ἐ. χθονός S.OC 766

, cf. Aj. 1177 ;

ἐ. πολέμῳ ἢ στάσει Th.1.2

;

γυμνὸς θύραζ ἐξέπεσον Ar.Pl. 244

; ὑπό τινος by a person,

ἐκ Πελοποννήσου ὑπὸ Μήδων Hdt.8.141

;

ὑπὸ τοῦ πλήθους Th.4.66

, cf. Inscr.Prien.37.71 ;

πρός τινος A.Pr. 948

, S.Ant. 679 :—in Th.7.50 the prep. ἐς is corrupt.

4 of limbs, to be dislocated, Hp.Art.8, etc. ; of flesh, mortify and separate itself, Id.Fract. 27 ; so ἐ. ὀδόντες, πτερά, Arist.GA 745b6, HA 519a26, etc. ; of atoms,

ἐκπεσοῦσαι κατέψυξαν Epicur.Fr.60

.

5 go forth, sally out, Hdt.9.74 ;

ἐκ τοῦ σταυρώματος X.HG4.4.11

: abs., Id.An.5.2.17 ; of rays, issue forth, Alex. Aphr. de An.127.31.

6 come out, of votes, X.Smp.5.10 ; turn out, happen, Vett.Val.70.27, al.

7 escape, Th.6.95.

8 of oracles, issue,

χρησμὸς ἐκπίπτει Luc.Alex.43

, etc. ;

ἐκπεσεῖν φωνὴν ἐξ ἄλσους Plu.Publ.9

; to be published, become known,

εἰς ἀνθρώπους ἀπαιδεύτους Pl.Ep. 314a

;

φήμη ἐ. ἐς τοὺς Ἕλληνας Plu.Cleom.5

: abs.,

ἀπόκρισις ἐ. Plb.30.32.10

.

9 depart,

ἐκ τῆς ὁδοῦ X.An.5.2.31

;

ἐκ τοῦ ἐπιτηδεύματος Pl.R. 495a

.

b digress, Isoc.12.88 ;

ἐ. ἐκ τοῦ λόγου Aeschin. 2.34

; but ἐ. τῆς διανοίας miss the sense, Olymp.in Mete.7.26 ; fall outside of a class, Alex.Aphr. de An.169.17.

10 of things, escape one unawares,

φασὶν ἐκπεσεῖν αὐτούς Arist.EN 1111a9

, cf. Plu.Per.8 ;

ἐ. τὴν αἴσθησιν Alex.Aphr. in Sens. 147.18

; of reason, fail, be lacking, Arist.MM 1202a3.

11 degenerate,

εἰς ἀλλότριον ἦθος Pl.R. 497b

; εἰς τὴν Φρυγιστὶ ἁρμονίαν slip into.., Arist.Pol. 1342b11 : abs., come to naught, Ep.Rom.9.6 ; to be dilapidated, IG22.204.74.

12 of actors or dramatic pieces, to be hissed off the stage, D.18.265, Arist.Po. 1456a18, 1459b31 : so of orators, Pl.Grg. 517a, cf.Phlb. 13d.

13 ἐ. ἑαυτοῦ lose one's self-control, Philostr.VA3.36 ; ἐ. σκοποῦ miss the mark, ib.8.7.

14 of things, arise from,

ἔκ τινος A.D.Adv.136.3

.

15 of money, cease to be current, IG7.303.14 (Oropus, iii B.C.).

16 run to excess,

δι' ἀοριστίαν Epicur.Sent.Vat.63

;

[ὁ πλοῦτος] εἰς ἄπειρον ἐ. Id.Sent.15

, cf.Luc.JConf.7.

b Geom., as [voice] Pass. of ἐκβάλλω, to be produced, Archim.Spir.14.

17 die,

χθὼν ἐκπιπτόντων Not.Scav.1923.35

(unless, = rubbish heap).

βουκολ-έω,

A tend cattle, ἕλικας βοῦς βουκολέεσκες ([dialect] Ep. [tense] impf.) Il.21.448, etc.: abs., Parth.4.1, Luc.DDeor.3:—[voice] Med.,

βουκολεῖσθαι αἶγας Eup.18

:—[voice] Pass., of cattle, graze, ἕλος κάτα βουκολέοντο, of horses, Il.20.221, cf.Ar. Pax 153: metaph. of meteors, range through the sky, Call.Del. 176.

b c. acc. rei, graze on,

Τρηχινίδα Euph. 114

.

2 of persons, βουκολεῖς Σαβάζιον you tend, serve him (with allusion to his tauriform worship), Ar.V.10:—[voice] Med., μὴ πρόκαμνε τόνδε βουκολούμενος πόνον ruminating, pondering, A.Eu.78.

II metaph., cheat, beguile,

πάθος Id.Ag. 669

;

τὸ δήμιον Ar.Ec.81

, cf. Men.Sam. 251;

αἱ τίτθαι τοὺς παῖδας διὰ μυθολογίας βουκολοῦσιν Max.Tyr.10.3

;

β. λύπην Babr.19.7

;

ἀλλοτρίοις κόσμοις τὸ τῆς φύσεως ἀπρεπές β. Luc.Am.38

:—[voice] Med., ἐλπίσι βουκολοῦμαι I feed myself on hopes, cheat myself with them, Alciphr.3.5, cf. Luc.Trag.29;

ἐπιθυμίαις Id.Am.2

:—[voice] Pass., Stoic.3.147;

βουκολεῖσθαι ὑπὸ ἐνυπνίων Porph.Marc.6

.

παλμός, ὁ,

A quivering motion,

πυγῆς Alciphr.1.39

; esp. pulsation, throbbing (on π. and σφυγμός cf. Gal.8.716),

φλεβῶν Hp.Acut.37

;

ὑποχονδρίου Id.Epid.1.26

.

β; ὑπὸ κροτάφοισι Nic.Al.27

, cf. Th. 744: abs., palpitation of the heart, a disease, Arist.Resp. 479b21; twitching, Gal.7.588.

2 of natural phenomena, vibration, rapid motion, D.S. 3.51, Nonn.D.2.193, al.; of meteors, Plu.Lys.12 codd.; impetus of a projectile, Ath.Mech.37.8.

3 in Epicur., internal vibration of bodies, Ep. I p.8 U., cf. Id. ap. Placit.1.12.5 (v.l. ἀποπαλμός).