ἀστράπτω
(compare στράπτω), Epic dialect imperfect ἀστράπτεσκον[[ 2nd c.BC: Moschus Bucolicus 2.86] Refs 2nd c.BC+]: future ἀστράψω[[ 5th c.BC: Cratinus Comicus 53, 4th-5th c.AD(?): Nonnus Epicus “Dionysiaca” 33.376] Refs 5th c.BC+]: aorist ἤστραψα[[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 17.595, etc.] Refs 8th c.BC+]:—lighten, hurl lightnings, frequently of omens sent by Zeus, ἀστράπτων ἐπιδέξι᾽[[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 2.353; Κρονίδης ἐνδέξια σήματα φαίνων ἀστράπτει 9.237; ὡς δ᾽ ὅτ᾽ ἂν ἀστράπτῃ πόσις Ἥρης 10.5; ἀστράψας δὲ μάλα μεγάλ᾽ ἔκτυπε 17.595; οὑλύμπιος ἤστραπτεν, ἐβρόντα 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Acharnenses” 531, compare “V.” 626. ] Refs 8th c.BC+]
__2 impersonal, ἀστράπτει it lightens, ἤστραψε it lightened, οὐρανοῦ δ᾽ ἄπο ἤστραψε[[ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Fragmenta” 578, compare 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Rhetorica” 1392b27. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__II flash or glance like lightning, πᾶς γὰρ ἀστράπτει χαλινός[[ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Coloneus” 1067 (Lyric poetry)] Refs 5th c.BC+]; κατάχαλκον ἀ. πεδίον gleams with brass, [[ 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Ph.” III; so ἀ. χαλκῷ 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 6.4.1 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; of the face, εἶδον τὴν ὄψιν.. ἀστράπτουσαν[[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Phaedrus” 254b; ἀ. τοῖς ὄμμασι 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Cynegeticus” 6.15 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; of flowers, ἀνεμωνίδες ἀστράπτουσαι bright, [[ 2nd c.BC: Nicander Epicus “fragment” 74.64: with _accusative_ _cognate_, ἐξ ὀμμάτων δ᾽ ἤστραπτε.. σέλας (i.e. Τυφών)] Refs 2nd c.BC+] flashed flame from his eyes, [[ 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Prometheus Vinctus” 358; ἵμερον ἀστράπτουσα κατ᾽ ὄμματος “Anthologia Graeca” 12.161 (3rd c.BC: Asclepiades Epigrammaticus), compare 2nd c.BC: Moschus Bucolicus [same place]; ἤστραψε γλυκὺ κάλλος “Anthologia Graeca” 12.110 (1st c.BC: Meleager Epigrammaticus). ] Refs 4th c.BC+]