σφαραγέομαι

• burst with a noise, crackle, sputter, as liquids when thrown upon the fire, σφαραγεῦντο δέ οἱ πυρὶ ῥίζαι the roots of his eye crackled or hissed (when Odysseus burnt them with the hot stake), Od. 9.390.
• • II groan with fulness, to be full to bursting, οὔθατα γὰρ σφαραγεῦντο ib. 440.

3 pl. impf. σφαραγεῦντο.

• • 1

    To crackle (under the action of heat): σφαραγεῦντο πυρὶ ῥίζαι [γλήνης] Od. 9.390.

  • 2

    To be ready to burst, be full to bursting: οὔθατα σφαραγεῦντο Od. 9.440.

• • IDep., to burst with a noise, to crackle, sputter, ῥίζαι σφαραγεῦντο the roots of his eye crackled or hissed (when Ulysses burnt them with the hot stake), Od.
  • IIto be full even to bursting, Od.