A.“δάψω” Il.13.831: aor. ἔδαψα, poet. “δάψα” Pi.N.8.23, Opp. H.3.333:—devour, as wild beasts, Il.16.159, etc.; “ἀλλήλους δάπτοντες” Emp.136; of fire, “δώσω Πριαμίδην πυρὶ δαπτέμεν” Il.23.183; of a spear, rend, “χρόα λειριόεντα δάψει” 13.831, cf. A.Pr.370; of moths and worms, [“χρυσὸν] οὐ σὴς οὐδὲ κὶς δ.” Pi.Fr.222; δ. τὰν παρειάν tear with the nails, A.Supp.70 (lyr.); corrode, “ὑγρὸν δάπτον” Aret.SD1.9: metaph., consume, δ. πόλιν, of a tyrant, Alc.Supp.23.7; of envy, Pi.N. 8.23; “δάπτει τὸ μὴ 'νδικον” S.OT682 (lyr.); “οἰκτρὰ συμφορὰ δ. φρένας” Trag.Adesp.Oxy.213(a).10:—Pass., “συννοίᾳ δάπτομαι κέαρ” A.Pr.437.
δάπτω , fut.
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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