φῡσάω,
Ionic dialect present participle φυσέων [[ 3rd c.BC: Callimachus Epicus “Iambi” 1.101 ] Refs 3rd c.BC+] (rightly censured by [[ Scholia in “PSI” 9.1094.30)] Refs]: (φῦσα):
__I absolutely, blow, puff (opposed to ἀάζω, [[ 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Problemata” 964a11), of bellows, φῦσαι.. ἐφύσων 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 18.470 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; of the wind, [[ 23.218 ] Refs]; of men, φυσητῆρας ἐσθέντες.. φυσῶσι τοῖσι στόμασι [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 4.2, compare 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 4.100 ] Refs 5th c.BC+], Call.[same place]; δεινὰ φυσᾷ snorts furiously, [[ 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Iphigenia Aulidensis” 381 (troch.)] Refs 5th c.BC+]; metaphorically from a flute-player, φυσᾷ γὰρ οὐ σμικροῖσιν αὐλίσκοις [[ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Fragmenta” 768 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; μέγαφυσᾶν, Latin magnum spirare, [[ 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Iphigenia Aulidensis” 125 (_anapaest meter_); οἱ φυσῶντες ἐφ᾽ ἑαυτοῖς μέγα 4th-3rd c.BC: Menander Comicus 302; μεγάλα φ. [prev. author] “Epit.” 492, 1st c.AD: Philo Judaeus 2.85; ἡλίκον ἐφύσα τότε 2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “Nec.” 12 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; αἷμαφυσῶν Ἄρης breathing blood and murder, [[ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Electra” 1385 (Lyric poetry)] Refs 5th c.BC+]; πολιτικὸν φύσημα φ. swell with political pride, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus Alcaeus2.145e; _absolutely_, παύου φυσῶν 4th c.BC: Ephippus Comicus 5.20 (_anapaest meter_); οὐκ ἐφύσων οἱ Λάκωνες ὡς ἀπόρθητοί ποτ; 4th c.BC: Antiphanes Comicus 117 (troch.); τῇ γένῇ φυσῶντες 3rd c.BC: Herodas Mimographus 2.32; φυσῶσα ἐπὶ τῷ γένει 1st-2nd c.AD: Dio Chrysostomus Sophista 58.5. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__II transitive, puff or blow up, distend, φ. κύστιν blow up a bladder, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Nubes” 405 (_anapaest meter_)] Refs 5th c.BC+]; of bag-pipers, [[ [prev. author] “Ach.” 863 ] Refs]; φ. δίκτυον, proverbial of labour in vain, [[ 2nd c.AD: Phrynichus Atticista “Praeparatio Sophistica” p.121 5th c.BC: Bacchylides Lyricus ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; φ. τὴν γνάθον, of one going to be shaved, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Thesmophoriazusae” 221 (but φ. τὰς γνάθους] Refs 5th c.BC+] to puff them up, of pride, [[ 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 19.314)] Refs 4th c.BC+]; distend, of disease, [[“Anthologia Graeca” 11.13 (2nd c.AD: Ammianus Epigrammaticus)] Refs 2nd c.AD+]:—passive, ἀσκοὶ πεφυσαμένοι [[ 5th c.BC: Sophron Comicus in “PSI” 11.1214d9 (compare 5th c.BC: Epicharmus Comicus 246); φλέβας φυσωμένας 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 4.2; ἡ γαστὴρ ἐπεφύσητό μου 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Plutus” 699; πρόβατα ἀποδαρέντα καὶ φυσηθέντα 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 3.5.9 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; πεφυσημένοι puffy, swollen, opposed to εὔχροοι, [[ [prev. author] “Lac.” 5.8. ] Refs]