βαπτ-ίζω,
dip, plunge, ξίφος εἰς σφαγήν [[ 1st c.AD: Josephus Historicus “Bellum Judaicum” 2.18.4; σπάθιον εἰς τὸ ἔμβρυον 2nd c.AD: Soranus Medicus 2.63 ] Refs 1st c.AD+]:—passive, of a trephine, [[ 2nd c.AD: Galenus Medicus 10.447; βάπτισον σεαυτὸν εἰς θάλασσαν 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus 2.166a; β. Διόνυσον πρὸς τὴν θάλασσαν [prev. work] 914d:] Refs 1st c.AD+] — in passive, to be drowned, [[ 1st-2nd c.AD: Epictetus Philosophus “Gnomologium” 47 ] Refs 1st c.AD+]; of ships, sink or disable them, [[ 2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 1.51.6, 16.6.2 (_passive_)] Refs 2nd c.BC+]; ἐβάπτισαν τὴν πόλιν flooded the city, metaphorically, of the crowds who flocked into Jerusalem at the time of the siege, [[ 1st c.AD: Josephus Historicus “Bellum Judaicum” 4.3.3; β. τινὰ εἰσφοραῖς 1st c.BC: Diodorus Siculus Historicus 1.73; β. τινὰ ὕπνῳ “Anthologia Graeca” 11.49 (5th c.BC: Evenus Elegiacus); ὕπνῳ βεβαπτισμένος 2nd c.AD: Archigenes Medicus and 2nd-1st c.BC: Posidonius Historicus cited in 6th c.AD: Aëtius Medicus 6.3 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]:—passive, ὡς ἐκ τοῦ βεβαπτίσθαι ἀναπνέουσι [[ 5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “ἐπιδημίαι” 5.63 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; to be drenched, [[ 4th c.BC: Eubulus Comicus 68: _metaphorically_, βεβαπτισμένοι ] Refs 4th c.BC+]soaked in wine, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Symposium” 176b ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ὀφλήμασι βεβ. over head and ears in debt, [[ 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Galba” 21 ] Refs 1st c.AD+]; γνοὺς βαπτιζόμενον τὸ μειράκιον seeing that he was getting into deep water, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Euthydemus” 277d; β. εἰς ἀναισθησίαν καὶ ὕπνον 1st c.AD: Josephus Historicus “Antiquitates Judaicae” 10.9.4; ὁ τῷ θυμῷ βεβαπτισμένος καταδύεται 3rd c.AD(?): Achilles Tatius Astronomus 6.19; ψυχή βεβαπτισμένη λύπῃ 4th c.AD: Libanius Sophista “Orationes” 64.115. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]