φρυ-άσσομαι,
Attic dialect φρυάττομαι, properly of spirited, high-fed horses, neigh, whinny and prance, [[ 3rd c.BC: Callimachus Epicus “Lavacrum Palladis” 2, “Anthologia Graeca” 5.201 (3rd c.BC: Asclepiades Epigrammaticus or 3rd c.BC: Posidippus Comicus), compare 6th c.AD: Thomas Epigrammaticus Mag. p.381R. ] Refs 3rd c.BC+]; φ. πρὸς τοὺς ἀγῶνας neigh eagerly for the race, [[ 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Lycurgus” 22 ] Refs 1st c.AD+]; also of a cock, [[ 2nd-3rd c.AD: Aelianus “De Natura Animalium - Ar.Byzantine Epit.” 7.7, compare below 11. ] Refs 2nd c.AD+]
__2 metaphorically of men, to be wanton, haughty, insolent, [[ 1st c.AD: Philo Judaeus 1.151, 297, +others, 4th c.AD: Alciphro Epistolographus 3.27; μὴ γαῦρα φρυάσσου “Anthologia Graeca” 12.33 (1st c.BC: Meleager Epigrammaticus), compare 2nd c.AD: Galenus Medicus 10.180: also with _accusative_, Ἔρωτες σκῦλα φρυασσόμενοι “APl.” 4.215 (1st c.AD: Philippus Epigrammaticus)] Refs 1st c.BC+]; φ. ἐπί τινι to be proud of a thing, [[ 1st c.BC: Diodorus Siculus Historicus 4.74; ἔν τισι “Anthologia Graeca” 4.3.27 (6th c.AD: Agathias Historicus et Epigrammaticus). ] Refs 1st c.BC+]
__3 transitive, ={καταπλήττω}, [[ 4th-3rd c.BC: Menander Comicus 1081. ] Refs 4th c.BC+]
__II active φρυάσσω [[ LXX.Psa.2.1 (quoted in NT.Act.4.25)] LXX+NT]; of birds, [[ 1st c.AD: Cyranus 81, compare “Corpus Glossariorum Latinorum” ] Refs 1st c.AD+]