βάπτω,
future βάψω (ἐμ-) [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Pax” 959 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]: aorist ἔβαψα [[ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Ajax” 95, etc.] Refs 5th c.BC+]:— middle, future βάψομαι [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Lysistrata” 51 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]: aorist ἐβαψάμην [[ 4th-3rd c.BC: Aratus Epicus 951, “Anthologia Graeca” 9.326 (1st c.AD: Leonidas Alexandrinus Epigrammaticus)] Refs 4th c.BC+]:—passive, future βᾰφήσομαι [[ LXX.Lev.11.32, 2nd c.AD: Marcus Antoninus Imperator 8.51 ] LXX+2nd c.AD+]: aorist ἐβάφθην [[ “Anthologia Graeca” 6.254 (Myrinus Epigrammaticus), (ἀπ-) 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Fragmenta” 416 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; in Attic dialect generally ἐβάφην [ᾰ] [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 429e, etc.] Refs 5th c.BC+]: perfect βέβαμμαι [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 7.67, 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Pax” 1176. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__I transitive, dip, ὡς δ᾽ ὅτ᾽ ἀνὴρ χαλκεὺς πέλεκυν.. εἰν ὕδατι ψυχρῷ βάπτῃ (so as to temper the red-hot steel) [[ 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 9.392; β. εἰς ὕδωρ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Timaeus” 73e, compare 5th c.BC: Empedocles Poeta Philosophus 100.11; τἄρια θερμῷ 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Ecclesiazusae” 216 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; εἰς μέλι, εἰς κηρόν, [[ 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Historia Animalium” 605a29, “de An.” 435a2:] Refs 4th c.BC+] —passive, βαπτόμενος σίδηρος iron in process of being tempered, [[ 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus 2.136a] Refs 1st c.AD+]; and of coral, become hard, [[ 1st c.AD: Dioscorides (Dioscurides) Medicus 5.121 (assuming variant). ] Refs 1st c.AD+]
__I.b of slaughter in Trag, ἐν σφαγαῖσι βάψασα ξίφος [[ 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Prometheus Vinctus” 863; ἔβαψας ἔγχος εὖ πρὸς Ἀργείων στρατ; 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Ajax” 95; φάσγανον εἴσω σαρκὸς ἔβαψεν 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Phoenissae” 1578 (Lyric poetry)] Refs 5th c.BC+]; in later Prose, εἰς τὰ πλευρὰ β. τὴν αἰχμήν [[ 1st c.BC: Dionysius Halicarnassensis 5.15; β. τὸν δάκτυλον ἀπὸ τοῦ αἵματος LXX.Lev.4.17. ] LXX+1st c.BC+]