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ὑποπίμπρημι

upopimpremi

set fire to

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Where it lives

Lysistrata 1 · 1.26/10k
Histories 4 · 0.22/10k
Lives of Eminent Philosophers 1 · 0.09/10k

What it meant

ὑποπίμπρημι · hypopimprēmi — LSJ

set fire to

set fire to, [ὕλην] Hdt. 2.107; [τὰ φρύγανα] Id. 4.69; ἤν τις ἐκείνας [τὰς ἕδρας] ὑποπίμπρῃσι Ar. Lys. 348 (lyr.); the pres. also in Plu. Nic. 16, Dio 44.

2 burn as on a funeral-pyre

burn as on a funeral-pyre, τινας Hdt. 2.111, 3.45.

In the wild

ὑποπίμπρησιν · hypopimprēsin Aristophanes, Lysistrata 3.346 (DIORISIS sentence 251)
ὑποπρησθῆναι · hypoprēsthēnai Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers 8.1 (DIORISIS sentence 7313)
ὑποπρῆσαι · hypoprēsai Herodotus, Histories 2.107.1 (DIORISIS sentence 2279)
ὑποπρῆσαι · hypoprēsai Herodotus, Histories 2.111.3 (DIORISIS sentence 2307)
ὑποπρῆσαι · hypoprēsai Herodotus, Histories 3.45.4 (DIORISIS sentence 3206)
ὑποπρήσαντες · hypoprēsantes Herodotus, Histories 4.69.1 (DIORISIS sentence 4493)

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