βλαστάνω,
[[ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Coloneus” 611, etc.] Refs 5th c.BC+] (later βλαστέω, [[ 4th-3rd c.BC: Theophrastus Philosophus “de Causis Plantarum” 2.17.4 (interpolated in 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Choephori” 589 ] Refs 4th c.BC+], corrupt in passive -ουμένη[[ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Fragmenta” 255.7))] Refs 5th c.BC+]; Ionic dialect imperfect βλαστάνεσκε (variant{βλάστεσκεν}) [[ [prev. author] “fragment” 546 ] Refs]: future βλαστήσω [[ 4th-3rd c.BC: Theophrastus Philosophus “Historia Plantarum” 2.7.2, βλαστήσομαι 2nd c.AD: Alexander Rhetor Trall. 12 ] Refs 4th c.BC+]: aorist 2 ἔβλαστον [[ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Fragmenta” 341, etc.] Refs 5th c.BC+]: aorist 1 ἐβλάστησα [[ 5th c.BC: Empedocles Poeta Philosophus 21.10, 5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “περὶ φύσιος παιδίου” 26, etc. (not in _Attic dialect_)] Refs 5th c.BC+]: perfect βεβλάστηκα [[ [prev. author] “Oss.” 12, 5th c.BC: Hellanicus Historicus 1 (b) 1st c.AD: Josephus Historicus, 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus 2.684c; ἐβλάστηκα 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Iphigenia Aulidensis” 594 (Lyric poetry), 5th c.BC: Eupolis Comicus 329 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]: pluperfect ἐβεβλαστήκει [[ 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 3.26 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]:—bud, sprout, grow, properly of plants, [[ 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Septem contra Thebas” 594, 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Coloneus” 697 (Lyric poetry), Th.[same place], 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Nubes” 1124, etc.] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἦ βλαστὸς οὐκ ἔβλαστε; [[ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Fragmenta” 341; εἰς ἴα σου.., καὶ ἐς κρίνα βλαστήσειεν ὀστέα “IG” 14.607 (from Carales). ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__2 metaphoricallyin Poets, shoot forth, come to light, βλάστε νᾶσος ἐξ ἁλός, of Rhodes, [[ 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “O.” 7.69 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; of children, to be born, [[ [prev. author] “N.” 8.7 ] Refs]; ἀνθρώπου φύσιν βλαστών born in man's nature, [[ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Ajax” 761, compare “OT” 1376, “El.” 440; ἄργυρος κακὸν νόμισμ᾽ ἔβλαστε [prev. author] “Ant.” 296; β. δ᾽ ἀπιστία [prev. author] “OC” 611; μέγιστ᾽ ἔβλαστε νόμιμα [prev. author] “El.” 1095 (Lyric poetry)] Refs 5th c.BC+]; not common in Prose, [[ 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus [same place], 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 498b, “Phdr.” 251b, 4th c.AD: Iamblichus Philosophus “de Mysteriis” 3.28. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]