Πυρακτῶν

Notes (1)

1. The headword is present active participle, nominative singular masculine, of the verb purakte/w.
1. 1= Synagoge pi802, Lexica Segueriana355.26, Photius pi1548 Theodoridis. For the first gloss alone see Hesychius pi4386, which reads e)mpureu/wn ('setting fire to') as the gloss rather than e)mpurseu/wn. The latter is less frequently attested and so might be a corruption of the reading reported in Hesychius. For the second gloss alone see Etymologicum Gudianum 488.45. Outside lexicography the headword is attested only in Basil of Caesarea↗ Homily on the Hexaemeron 3.7 (PG 29.69b, referring to the ether), and orthodoxy holds that that passage is the origin of these entries. ↩