πυραύστης
From LSJ
ὦ παῖδες Ἑλλήνων ἴτε ἐλευθεροῦτε πατρίδ', ἐλευθεροῦτε δὲ παῖδας, γυναῖκας, θεῶν τέ πατρῴων ἕδη, θήκας τε προγόνων: νῦν ὑπὲρ πάντων ἀγών. → O children of the Greeks, go, free your homeland, free also your children, your wives, the temples of your fathers' gods, and the tombs of your ancestors: now the struggle is for all things.
English (LSJ)
ου, ὁ, (αὔω (A))
A moth that gets singed in the candle, δέδοικα μῶρον κάρτα πυραύστου μόρον A.Fr.288, cf. Arist.HA605b11, Ael. NA12.8.
German (Pape)
[Seite 820] ὁ, die Lichtmotte; Arist. H. A. 8, 27; Aesch. frg. 298, μῶρος πυραύστου μόρος, woraus Tzetz. zu Lycophr. 83 ein Wort machte, πυραυστουμόρος, der Lichtmottentod.
