ὀργ-άω

I to be getting ready to bear, growing ripe, swell, grows ripe, turgid

to be getting ready to bear, growing ripe for something, of soil, Thphr. CP 3.2.6 ; of trees, συμβαίνει . . τὰ . . δένδρα ὀργᾶν πρὸς τὴν βλάστησιν ib. 1.6.2 ; ὀργᾷ [ἡ σμῖλαξ] πρὸς τὴν ἄνθησιν Plu. QConv. 2.647f; and of fruit, swell as it ripens, ὁ καρπὸς πεπαίνεται καὶ ὀργᾷ Hdt. 4.199 : so c. inf., ὀργᾷ ἀμᾶσθαι grows ripe for cutting, ibid., cf. X. Oec. 19.19 ; of a wound, ὀργᾶν φαίνεται appears turgid, Hp. Fract. 28, cf. Aph. 1.22.

II swell, wax wanton, be rampant, to be in heat, desire sexual intercourse

of men, like σφριγάω, swell with lust, wax wanton, be rampant, Ar. Lys. 1113, Av. 462 (where the Sch. explains it ἐπιθυμητικῶς ἔχω) ; ὁ ἐπʼ ἀφροδισίοις μαινόμενος . . ὀργῶν Poll. 6.188 ; of human beings and animals, to be in heat, desire sexual intercourse, ὀργᾶν πρὸς τὴν ὁμιλίαν, ὀχείαν, Arist. HA 542a32, 560b13 ; ὀ. ὀχεύεσθαι ib. 500b11 ; πρὸς τὸ γεννᾶν Plu. QConv. 2.651c.

2 to be eager, ready, to be excited, under the influence of passion, to be urgent

generally, to be eager or ready, to be excited, Λακεδαιμονίων ὀργώντων ἔμελλον πειράσεσθαι Th. 4.108 ; ὀργῶντες κρίνειν judge under the influence of passion, Id. 8.2 : c. inf., ὄργα μαθεῖν A. Ch. 454 (lyr.); ὀργᾶν τεκεῖν Arist. HA 613b28 ; ἀκοῦσαι ὀργῶ Cratin. 21 D.; of a thing, to be urgent, ὤργα τὸ πρᾶγμα A. Fr. 54A; ὀ. πρός τι Plu. Alex. 6, D.Chr. 36.26, Marcellin. Vit.Thuc. 54 ; ἐπὶ ἐκφύλους συνόδους Ph. 2.21 ; ὀργᾷς ὃς ἱππίαν ἐς ὁδόν dub. cj. in Pi. P. 6.50 : plpf. Pass. in act. sense, ὧν ἀ

III

ὀργήσας is f.l. for ὀργάσας in Hdt. 4.64.