φλόξ, ἡ,
genitive φλογός: (φλέγω):— flame of fire, [[ 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 24.71, etc.; δεινὴ δὲ φλὸξ ὦρτο θεείου καιομένοιο 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 8.135; τῆς δὲ [νηὸς] κατ᾽ ἀσβέστη κέχυτο φλόξ 16.123; κατὰ πῦρ ἐκάη καὶ φλὸξ ἐμαράνθη 9.212; more fully, φλὸξ Ἡφαίστοιο 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 17.88, 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” [same place]; πυρός 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “P.” 4.225, 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Bacchae” 8, “Heracl.” 914 (Lyric poetry), 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Timaeus” 83b, etc. (but also φλογὸς αἰθέριον πῦρ 4th-5th c.BC: Parmenides Poeta Philosophus 8.56)] Refs 8th c.BC+]; φλογὸς σπέρμα, of live charcoal, [[ 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “O.” 7.48 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἀναιθύσσειν, θύειν, [[ 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Troades” 344, “IT” 1331 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἐγείρειν, παρακαλεῖν, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Symposium” 2.24, “Cyr.” 7.5.23; ἐμβαλεῖν τινι 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Alcestis” 4, “Rh.” 120; σβέσαι 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 2.77; φ. ἀπέσσυτο 8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus “Theogonia” 859; ἀπορρέουσα 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Timaeus” 67c; φλογὸς ἀποσβεσθείσης [prev. work] 58c ] Refs 8th c.BC+]: later in plural, flames, meteors, [[ 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Meteorologica” 341b2, “Mu.” 392b3, 400a30, 5th-6th c.AD: Orphica “Lithica” 178, 2nd c.BC: Nicander Epicus “fragment” 74.48. ] Refs 4th c.BC+]
__2 fire as an element, φλογὸς αἶσα [[ 4th-5th c.BC: Parmenides Poeta Philosophus 12.2; φ. ἱλάειρα 5th c.BC: Empedocles Poeta Philosophus 85. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__3 of other kinds of flame, φ. κεραυνία, οὐρανία, of lightning, [[ 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Prometheus Vinctus” 1017, 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Medea” 144 (_anapaest meter_)] Refs 5th c.BC+]; of the heat of the sun, [[ 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Prometheus Vinctus” 22, “Pers.” 505, 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Trachiniae” 696 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; flash of a miraculous cloud, [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 18.206 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; of precious stones, ψυχρὰ φ. [[ 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “Fragmenta.” 123.5 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; the blade of a sword, [[ LXX.Josh.3.22, 2nd c.AD: Aquila LXX, 2nd c.AD(?): Theodotion LXX.1Ki.17.7. ] LXX+2nd c.AD+]