πῠρόω,
(πῦρ) burn with fire, burn up, τὰς Ἀθήνας [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 7.8.β, 8.102; στέγην 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Fragmenta - American Journal of Philology” 281; ναούς 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Antigone” 286 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; burn as a burnt sacrifice, ὀσφῦν [[ 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Prometheus Vinctus” 497; πυροῦτε σώματα 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Hercules Furens” 244 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; burn on a pyre, ἣν πεπύρωκαν (sic) ἐγώ [[ “Supp.epigram” 1.569 (from Egypt)] Refs]; π. Κύκλωπος ὄψιν burn out his eye, [[ 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Cyclops” 594, compare 600:] Refs 5th c.BC+] —middle, παῖδα πυρωσαμένη having placed my son on the pyre, [[ Anthologia Graeca 7.466 (1st c.AD: Leonidas Alexandrinus Epigrammaticus)] Refs 1st c.AD+]:—passive, to be set on fire, to be burnt, πυρωθέντων Τρώων [[ 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “P.” 11.33; Ἴλιον πυρούμενον 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Andromache” 400, compare “Tr.” 1283; πυρωθῆναι δέμας [prev. author] “IT” 685, compare “Med.” 1190, 1st c.BC: Parthenius Mythographus in “PLit.Lond.” 64.6, 1st c.AD: Philo Judaeus 1.256. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__b π. τὴν γεῦσιν, τὴν γλῶσσαν, seem hot to the taste or tongue, [[ 1st c.AD: Dioscorides (Dioscurides) Medicus 1.16, 4.170. ] Refs 1st c.AD+]
__c ἡ ζεστολουσία.. πυροῦσα τὴν ἐπιφάνειαν reddening or warming up the surface, [[ 1st-2nd c.AD(?): Theon Rhetor cited in 2nd c.AD: Galenus Medicus 6.208. ] Refs 1st c.AD+]
__2 metaphorically, set on fire, inflame, Ἔρως σὺ δ᾽ εὐθέως με πύρωσον [[ “Anacreontea” 10.15 ] Refs]:—passive, to be inflamed or excited, παραγγέλμασιν.. πυρωθεὶς καρδίαν [[ 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Agamemnon” 481 (Lyric poetry)] Refs 4th c.BC+]; τινι by a person (with love), [[“Anthologia Graeca” 12.87; εὐχαριστίᾳ 1st c.AD: Philo Judaeus 1.60, cf. NT.2Cor.11.29. ] NT+1st c.AD+]