ζέω,
contraction 3rd.pers. singular ζεῖ even in [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 21.362 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; later Epic dialect ζείω [[ 3rd c.BC: Callimachus Epicus “Hymnus in Dianam” 60, ] Refs 3rd c.BC+]subjunctive ζείῃσι Epic. in [[ “Arch.Papyrus” 7p.7] Refs]; in late Prose ζέννυμι (which see): imperfect ζέε [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 21.365, ἔζεε 8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus “Theogonia” 695, ἔζει 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Coloneus” 434: ] Refs 8th c.BC+]future ζέσω (ἐξανα-) [[ 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Prometheus Vinctus” 372 ] Refs 4th c.BC+]: aorist ἔζεσα [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 7.188, compare ἐπιζέω] Refs 5th c.BC+]; Epic dialect ζέσσα [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 18.349:] Refs 8th c.BC+] —passive, aorist ἐζέσθην (ἀπ-) [[ 1st c.AD: Dioscorides (Dioscurides) Medicus 1.3, (ἐν-) 2nd c.AD: Aretaeus Medicus “ὀξέων νούσων θεραπευτικόν” 1.2 ] Refs 1st c.AD+]: perfect ἔζεσμαι [[ “Geoponica” 10.54.3 ] Refs]:—boil, seethe, of water, ἐπεὶ δὴ ζέσσεν ὕδωρ ἐνὶ ἤνοπι χαλκῷ [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 18.349, 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 10.360 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; ὡς δὲ λέβης ζεῖ ἔνδον as the kettle boils, [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 21.362, compare 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Cyclops” 343 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; rarely of solids, to be fiery hot, χθὼν ἔζεε [[ 8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus “Theogonia” 695, 847; χαλκός Callias Epigrammaticus [prev. cited] ] Refs 8th c.BC+]
__2 ferment, [[ 5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “περὶ ἀρχαίης ἰητρικῇς” 11; γλεύκους ζέοντος 1st c.AD: Dioscorides (Dioscurides) Medicus 5.8. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__3 metaphorically, boil or bubble up, τῆς θαλάσσης ζεσάσης [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 7.188; αἷμα διὰ χρωτὸς ζέσσ᾽ “Anthologia Graeca” 7.208 (from Anyte)] Refs 5th c.BC+]; οἶνος ζεῖ [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 773d. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]