περιφλέγω
From LSJ
Ἐρωτώμενος διὰ τί ὀλίγους ἔχει μαθητάς, ἔφη ὅτι ἀργυρέᾳ αὐτοὺς ἐκβάλλω ῥάβδῳ → When asked why he had so few pupils, he replied ‘I chase them away with a silver stick (Diogenes Laertius 6.4.5, on the philosopher Antisthenes)
English (LSJ)
A burn, blaze all round, Id.2.648c. II trans., burn up, wither, θέρος π. τὰ γεννώμενα Ph. 2.391; ἆσθμα π. χαίτην D.Chr.36.47 : with acc. understood, πρὶν ἢ τὸν ἥλιον -φλέγειν Poll.10.51; overheat, Plu.2.651b, Sor.1.72 :—Pass., of victims in the bull of Phalaris, Plb.12.25.2; to be singed, Philum. Ven.7.12: metaph., Plu.2.498b ; cf. περιφλεύω.
