A.“βρυχ-” A.R.4.19, Max.Tyr. 31.3, D.C.68.24, (ἀν-) Pl.Phd.117d; also ἐβρυχήθην (v. infr.): Ep. pf. “βέβρυ_χα” Od.5.412, al.: plpf. “ἐβεβρύχει” 12.242:—onomatop. Verb, roar, bellow, prop. of lions, acc. to Hsch. and Ammon.; of a bull, “ταῦρος ὣς βρυχώμενος” S.Aj.322, cf. Ar.Ra.823; of wild beasts, “δεινὸν δ᾽ ἐβρυχῶντο” Theoc.25.137; of the elephant, Plu.Pyrrh.33: in Il. mostly of the death-cry of wounded men, “κεῖτο τανυσθείς, βεβρυχώς” 13.393; so βρυχώμενον σπασμοῖσι, of Hercules, S.Tr.805, cf. 904; βέβρυχα κλαίων ib.1072; “δεινὰ βρυχηθείς” Id.OT1265; later, of an infant's wail, Men.1004; “κλαίων καὶ β.” Alciphr.1.35; also of the roaring of waves, “ἀμφὶ δὲ κῦμα βέβρυχεν ῥόθιον” Od.5.412, cf. Il.17.264; “ἀμφὶ δὲ πέτρη δεινὸν βεβρύχει” Od.12.242, cf. Aristid.Or.17(15).14; βρυχομένη (as if from βρύχομαι) is required by the metre in Q.S. 14.484, cf. βρύχεται: μαίνεται, Hsch.; but βρυχῶνται, -ώμενος shd. be read in Hp.Morb.Sacr.1, Luc.DMar.1.4.
βρυ_χ-άομαι , aor. ἐβρυχησάμην, Ep.
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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