πτήσσω
(never πτήττω), [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Vespae” 1490, 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 3.3.18 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]: future πτήξω [[ “Anthologia Graeca” 12.141 codices (1st c.BC: Meleager Epigrammaticus)] Refs 1st c.BC+]: aorist ἔπτηξα [[ 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Hercules Furens” 974, etc.] Refs 5th c.BC+], Doric dialect ἔπταξα [[ 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “P.” 4.57 ] Refs 5th c.BC+], Epic dialect πτῆξα [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 14.40: ] Refs 8th c.BC+]aorist 2 ἔπτᾰκον in compound καταπτακών [[ 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Eumenides” 252 ] Refs 4th c.BC+]; Epic dialect 3rd.pers. dual καταπτήτην [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 8.136 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]: perfect ἔπτηχα [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Isocrates Orator 5.58, (κατ-) 4th c.BC: Lycurgus Orator 40, 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 4.8 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; later ἔπτηκα (κατ-) [[ 4th c.AD: Themistius Sophista “Orationes” 24.309b ] Refs 4th c.AD+]; Epic dialect participle πεπτηώς, ῶτος (see.below[[ 11.2). ] Refs]
__I Causal, scare, alarm, πτῆξε θυμὸν ἐνὶ στήθεσσιν Ἀχαιῶν [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 14.40; ἐχθροὺς πτῆξαι 6th c.BC: Theognis Elegiacus 1015. ] Refs 8th c.BC+]
__II intransitive, crouch or cower for fear, of animals, ἅπερ πτηνῶν ἀγέλαι τάχ᾽ ἂν σιγῇ πτήξειαν ἄφωνοι [[ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Ajax” 171 (_anapaest meter_); πτήξας δέμας παρεῖχε 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Persae” 209; [πῶλος] π. αἰσχύνῃσιν 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Fragmenta” 659.9, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Aves” 777 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; of human beings, ἔπταξαν ἀκίνητοι σιωπᾷ [[ 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “P.” 4.57 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ὑπὸ φόβῳ π. [[ 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Bacchae” 1035 (Lyric poetry); πτῆξαι ταπεινήν [prev. author] “Andr.” 165; π. θυμόν 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Coloneus” 1466 (Lyric poetry)] Refs 5th c.BC+]; κακῶς πάσχων π. [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Symposium” 184b; δοκεῖ μοι τοῦ αὐτοῦ ἀνδρὸς εἶναι καὶ εὐτυχοῦντα ἐξυβρίσαι καὶ πταίσαντα.. πτῆξαι 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 3.1.26 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἐκποδὼν π. [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Thesmophoriazusae” 36: with Preps., π. ἐν μυχοῖς πέτρας 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Cyclops” 408; εἰς ἕνα χῶρον 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Lysistrata” 770 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; πόλις πρὸς πόλιν π. [[ 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Supplices” 269; βωμὸν ὄρνις ὣς ἔπτηξ᾽ ὕπο [prev. author] “HF” 974: with _accusative_ loci, βωμὸν π. [prev. author] “Ion” 1280. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]