A.watch-fires, in Hom. only nom. and acc., “καίωμεν πυρὰ πολλά” Il.8.509, cf. 554, 9.77, 10.12; “ἐκκαύσαντες π.” Hdt.4.134; πύρ᾽ αἴθει（ν) prob. for πυραίθει（ν) in E.Rh.41 (lyr.), 78,823 (lyr.) and for πύραιθεῖν (sic) in Call.Fr.1.13 P.; “πυρὰ δαίεται” E.Rh.136 (lyr.); ὡς . . ᾐσθάνοντό τὰ πυρὰ . . φανέντα the beacon-fires, Th.8.102; “π. κατασβεννύναι” X.An.6.3.25; dat., ἐπιτυγχάνει πυροῖς ἐρήμοις ib.7.2.18, cf. Cyr.4.2.16; of volcanic fires, Arist.Mir.833a1; “πυρά . . εὔδηλα πᾶσι” Scymn.258: metaph., “δῆμος π. ἐς τὸν Τίβεριν πολλὰ ἐνέβαλε” D.C.55.13. (A sg. πυρόν is cited by Hdn.Gr.2.944, but rejected by Eust.729.63: the accent, as well as dat. πυροῖς, shows that πυρά does not belong to πῦρ.)
πυ^ρά , ῶν, τά,
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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