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πυργόω

πυργόω, to provide with towers: to protect, to raise to lofty heights

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πυργοῦσʼ present active participle feminine nominative plural, present active participle feminine vocative plural, present active participle feminine nominative singular, present active participle feminine vocative singular, present active participle masculine dative plural, present active participle neuter dative plural, present active indicative 3rd plural of πυργόω

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πυργ-όω,
  • gird or fence with towers, Θήβης ἕδος ἔκτισαν . . πύργωσάν τε Od. 11.264, cf. Hom. Epigr. 4.3, Orac. ap. Hdt. 1.174, E. Ba. 172:— Med., fortify, ὀχυρά X. Cyr. 6.1.20; ἄστη MoschioTrag. 6.27:—Pass., κορυφαὶ πεπυργωμέναι Str. 12.3.39.
      • 2 metaph., fence, protect, δέμας ἀσπίδι Nonn. D. 30.52, etc.
      • 3 πυργωθείς furnished with a tower, of an elephant, AP 9.285 (Phil.).
    • II metaph., raise up to a towering height, πυργωθέντα πλοῦτον B. 3.13; πρῶτος . . πυργώσας ῥήματα σεμνά the first . . ‘to build the lofty rhyme’, Ar. Ra. 1004; τέχνην . . ἐπύργωσʼ οἰκοδομήσας ἔπεσιν μεγάλοις κτλ. Id. Pax 749; so ἀοιδὰς εὐδαιμονίας ἐπύργωσε E. Supp. 998 (lyr.), cf. AP 7.39 (Antip. Thess.): hence, exalt, lift up, π. ἄνω τὸ μηδὲν ὄντα E. Tr. 612; Τροίαν ib. 844 (lyr.); < ὑμᾶς> . . τυραννίσι πατὴρ ἐπύργου Id. HF 475; of doctors, πυργοῦντες αὑτούς magnifying themselves, Men. 497 (= Mimn.Trag. 2); π. χάριν exalt, exaggerate it, E. Med. 526; δὶς τόσα π. τῶν γιγνομένων Id. Heracl. 293 (anap.); τὴν τέχνην Lib. Ep. 834.5; καθαροῖς λούμασι adorn (the city) with . ., Epigr.Gr. 903: also intr., declaim, μάταιον τὸ πυργοῦν λέγοντα . . Phld. Mort. 33:—Pass., exalt oneself, τῇδʼ ἐπυργοῦτο στολῇ, of a horse, A. Pers. 192; πεπύργωσαι θράσει, λόγοις, E. Or. 1568, HF 238.

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