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φλάω , Ar.Pl.784, impf. 3sg.
A.“ἔφλα” Id.Nu.1376: fut. φλάσω [α^], Dor. “φλασσῶ” Theoc.5.148 (Ahrens, φλασῶ codd.): aor. “ἔφλα^σα” Hp. VC11, poet. “φλάσα” Pi.N.10.68, Dor. opt. “φλάσσαιμι” Theoc.5.150 (Ahrens, φλάσαιμι codd.):—Pass., aor. “ἐφλάσθην” Hp. l. c., etc.; pf. πέφλασμαι ib.5, (συμ-) IG22.1425.351:— = θλάω, crush, “οὔ νιν φλάσαν” Pi. l. c.; “πουλύπουν φλάσασα ἐσθιέτω” Hp.Superf.33, cf. VC2 (Pass.); “ἔφλα ἐν τῇ θυεία . . ὀπὸν καὶ σχῖνον” Ar.Pl.718; φλῶσι τἀντικνήμια ib. 784; “ἔφλα με” Id.Nu.1376, cf. Theoc. ll. cc.: metaph., “πᾶσι κακοῖσιν ἡμᾶς [τὰς γυναῖκας] φλῶσιν . . ἅνδρες” Ar.Fr.10(lyr.).
2. Com., bruise with the teeth, eat up, Id.Pl.694, Pax1306, Antiph.190.19, Men.607.
II. sens. obsc., = masturbari, Hsch.
Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. A Greek-English Lexicon. revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones. with the assistance of. Roderick McKenzie. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1940.

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