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καίω

καίω, καίω/κάω, kindle; set on fire, burn

καίω, Att. κάω [ᾱ], impf. ἔκαιον Od. 9.553, Att. ἔκᾱον, Ep. καῖον Il. 21.343: fut. καύσω X. Cyr. 5.4.21, (ἐπι-) Pl.Com. 186.4, (κατα-) Ar. Lys. 1218; also καύσομαι Id. Pl. 1054: aor. 1 ἔκαυσα Id. Pax 1088, Th. 7.80 (bis), Pl. Grg. 456b, etc.; Ep. ἔκηα (certain Act. and Med. forms have κει- in codd. of Hom., v. infr.), ἔκηα Il. 1.40, al.; 3sg. ἔκηε (ν) 22.170, 24.34, al.; unaugm. κῆεν 21.349; 3pl. ἔκηαν (v.l. ἔκειαν) Od. 22.336; imper. κεῖον 21.176 codd.; 1pl. subj. κείομεν Il. 7.333 (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, Att. κέαντες A. Ag. 849, S. El. 757, (ἐκ-) E. Rh. 97, ἐκκέας Ar. Pax 1133 (lyr.), ἐγκέαντι IG 1(2).374.96, 261: pf. κέκαυκα (κατα-, προσ-) X. HG 6.5.37, Alex. 124.3:—Med., aor. 1 ἐκαυσάμην (ἀν-) Hdt. 1.202, 8.19; Ep. κείαντο, κειάμενοι, Il. 9.88, 234; κειάμενος Od. 16.2, 23.51:—Pass., fut. καυθήσομαι Hp. Nat.Mul. 107, (κατα-, ἐκ-) Ar. Nu. 1505, Pl. R. 362a; late κᾰήσομαι 1 Ep.Cor. 3.15: aor. 1 ἐκαύθην Hp. Epid. 4.4, Int. 28, (κατ-) Hdt. 1.19, Th. 3.74; Ep. and Ion. aor. 2 ἐκάην [ᾰ] Il. 9.212 (κατ-), Od. 12.13, (δί-) Hp. Loc.Hom. 40, (κατ-) Hdt. 2.180; inf. καήμεναι Il. 13.210, καῆναι Parth. 9.8: pf. κέκαυμαι E. Cyc. 457, Th. 4.34, etc., κέκαυσμαι Hp. Int. 28; inf. κεκαῦσθαι Arist. Mete. 343a9. (From κᾰϝ-yω.)
    • I kindle, πυρὰ πολλά Il. 9.77; πῦρ κείαντες Od. 9.231; πῦρ κῆαι 15.97, etc.:—Med., πῦρ κείαντο they lighted them a fire, Il. 9.88, cf. 234, Od. 16.2:—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:—Pass., νηυσὶν καιομένῃσιν 9.602.
      • 2 make hot, of the sun, ἀνθρώπους Hdt. 3.104: abs., ibid., Pl. Cra. 413b; [χείμαρρος] ἠελίῳ κεκαυμένος smelted, AP 9.277 (Antiphil.).
      • 3 of extreme cold, ἡ χιὼν καίει τῶν κυνῶν τὰς ῥῖνας X. Cyn. 8.2, cf. 6.26 (Pass.); κάειν λέγεται . . τὸ ψυχρόν, οὐχ ὡς τὸ θερμόν Arist. Mete. 382b8.
      • 4 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. HG 4.2.15, 6.5.27.
    • IV of surgeons, cauterize, ὤμους Hp. Art. 11:—in 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.

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