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ἐπικαίω ,
A.light up or kindle on a place, “πῦρ” h.Ap.491; burn on an altar, “ὅς μοι πολλὰ βοῶν ἐπὶ μηρἴ ἔκηεν” Il.22.170, cf. Od.3.9, 17.241.
II.. burn on the surface, scorch, Hp.Aër.17 (Pass.); οἱ τὰ “σώματα ὑπὸ τῶν ἡλίων ἐπικεκαυμένοι” Pl.Ep.340d; τῷ χρώματι παρὰ “φύσιν-κεκαυμένος” Plb.38.8.7, cf. Apollon.Mir.23; “ἀέρα -όμενον” Antipho Soph.26; of lightning, Arist.Mete.371b14; of hot iron, Id.HA 631b26; of cold, Hp.Aër.20, Thphr.CP2.1.6 (v.l.); of a caustic drug, Dsc.3.35.
2.. burn on the top, of stumps, Plu.2.529b; of pruning trees by burning, Thphr.HP6.6.6; cauterize, “τὰ χείλη τῶν τραυμάτων” Aët.13.4, cf. Philum.Ven.3.5, al.
3.. brand, “ἵππον” PCair.Zen.93.4(iii B.C.).
Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. A Greek-English Lexicon. revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones. with the assistance of. Roderick McKenzie. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1940.

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