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πέμφιξ , ι_γος, ἡ,
A.breath, blast, ἀπῇξε πέμφιξ Ἰονίου πέλας πόρου prob. in S. Fr. 337; “κεραυνία π. βροντῆς” Id.Fr. 538; δυσχείμερος π. A.Fr. 195.4.
2. ray, “τηλέσκοπον πέμφιγα χρυσέαν ἰδών” S.Fr.338 ; ἂς οὔτε π. ἡλίου προσδέρκεται οὔτε κτλ. A.Fr.170.
3. drop, Id.Fr.205; “μηδ᾽ αἵματος πέμφιγα πρὸς πέδῳ βάλῃς” Id.Fr. 183.
4. cloud, πέμφιγι . . ἀγγέλῳ πυρός cloud, harbinger of lightning, S.Fr.539 ; driving rain or rain-cloud, Ibyc.17; πελιδναὶ φλύκταιναι πέμφιξιν ἐειδόμεναι ὑετοῖο, . . ἀμυδρήεσσαι ἐς ὠπήν livid pustules like rain clouds (in colour) . . dim to the sight, Nic.Th.273 (but = bubbles acc. to Sch.); dub. sens. in Call.Fr.483 (prob. = Oxy.2080.43).
5. ghost, Lyc.1106, and so prob. in Euph.134.
6. pustule or part surrounding a pustule, ἐφίσταται π. οἷον ἐλαίου χλωρῆς ὥσπερ ἀράχνιον Euryphon ap. Gal.17 (1).886.
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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