πταίρω: Difference between revisions

|Definition=<span class="title">Hippiatr.</span>38 (<span class="sense"><span class="bld">A</span> [[varia lectio|v.l.]] [[πτέρεται]], v. [[πτέρομαι]]), also πτείρω, Hdn. Gr.<span class="bibl">1.191</span> codd. (pres. in use in early writers πτάρνυμαι, <span class="bibl">Hp.<span class="title">Morb.</span>2.54</span>, <span class="bibl">X.<span class="title">An.</span>3.2.9</span>, <span class="bibl">Philem.100.4</span>, <span class="bibl">Arist.<span class="title">Pr.</span>962b8</span> (also [[πτάρνεται]] <span class="title">Gloss.</span>), impf. ἐπταρνύμην <span class="bibl">Diog.<span class="title">Ep.</span>35.3</span>): aor. 2 ἔπτᾰρον <span class="bibl">Od.17.541</span>, etc.: rarely aor. 1, part. πτάραντες <span class="bibl">Arist.<span class="title">Pr.</span>963a33</span> ([[si vera lectio|s.v.l.]]):—Pass., v. sub fin.:—[[sneeze]], <b class="b3">μέγ' ἔπταρεν</b> he [[sneezed]] aloud, Od. [[l.c.]] (taken for a good omen, cf. <span class="bibl">Ar.<span class="title">Ra.</span>647</span>, etc.); but also as a bad omen, λυπούμεθ' ἂν πτάρῃ τις <span class="bibl">Men.534.9</span>; ἔπταρον εἰς ἀνέμους <span class="title">AP</span>11.375 (Maced.); <b class="b3">οὐδὲ λέγει Ζεῦ σῶσον, ἐὰν πτάρῃ</b> ib.<span class="bibl">268</span>; ἀναλαβὼν τοιοῦτόν τι, οἵῳ κνήσαις ἂν τὴν ῥῖνα, πτάρε <span class="bibl">Pl.<span class="title">Smp.</span>185e</span>: metaph. of a lamp, [[sputter]], AP6.333 (Marc. Arg.):—also in aor. Pass., part. πταρείς <span class="bibl">Hp.<span class="title">Epid.</span> 5.14</span>, <span class="bibl">Arist.<span class="title">Pr.</span>887b35</span>.</span>