πορφύρω
porphyro
heaves, surges, swirls
Appears 4 times across Homer's epics.
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Dictionary (LSJ)
πορφύρω [ῡ], poet. Verb, only pres. and impf., of the sea, ὡς ὅτε πορφύρῃ πέλαγος μέγα κύματι κωφῷ as when the huge sea
‹ All lexicon entries heaves, surges, swirls with dumb swell (i.e. with waves that do not break), Il. 14.16, cf. 158, 2.23; ὑπὸ στείρῃσι θάλασσα πορφύρει 296; διάνδιχα νηὸς ἰούσης δίνῃ πορφύροντα διήνυσαν Ἑλλήσποντον 1.935; of flame, [φλόγα] φονίῳ σβέσεν αἵματι πορφύρουσαν 4.668:—later in Med., κἂν ἡ γαλήνη πορφύροιτο even in a gently heaving calm, Or. 31.2; εὔδια μὲν πόντος πορφύρεται AP 10.14 ().
2. metaph., πολλὰ δέ οἱ κραδίη πόρφυρε much was his heart troubled, Il. 21.551, cf. Od. 4.427, 572, 10.309; though others take it trans., his heart brooded, pondered on many things, as in 2.85, al., Epic. ap. : abs., ponder, 3.456; π. οἷον . . ib. 1161.
II. after , grow red, of a river, καὶ τὺ δὲ Κρᾶθι οἴνῳ πορφύροις mayʼst thou flush with wine, 5.125 (= βλύζοις Sch., i.e. signf. I.1; prob. both senses are meant); τόσον ἄνθος χιονέαις πόρφυρε παρηΐσι 2.19; αἰδοῖ π. παρήϊον 14.47; πορφύρων βότρυς AP 9.249 (); δαίδαλα πορφύρων, of the tigerʼs skin, C. 3.347; of ringlets, ὑακίνθοις . . ὅμοια πορφύροντες Am. 26, cf. Or. 1.19; γῆ π. ἄνθεσι ib. 13.7.
2. trans., dye red, χεῖρας φόνῳ D. 44.106:—Pass., [οἴνῳ] πορφύρετο πέτρη ib. 45.308, etc. (πορφῠρ-yω, redupl., cogn. with Lat. fervere, fermentum, OE. beorm ‘barm, froth on fermenting malt liquors, yeastʼ; for the sequence of meanings cf. English flush (1) ‘flow suddenly in great volume’, (2) of blood, ‘rush to the cheeks’, (3) of the cheeks, etc., ‘become redʼ; cf. πορφύρεος.)