A.“θήξω” E.Cyc.242: aor. “ἔθηξα” Pi.O.10(11).20, E.Or.[51]:—Med., aor. ἐθηξάμην (v. infr.):—Pass., pf. τέθηγμαι (v. infr.):—poet. Verb (used by X. and later, v. infr.), sharpen, whet, Hom. (only in Il.), “θήγων λευκὸν ὀδόντα” 11.416, cf. 13.475, Hes.Sc.388; “ὀδόντα” Ar.Ra.815 (hex.); “γένυν” E.Ph.1380; θ. φάσγανον, ξίφος, μαχαίρας, A.Ag.1262, E.Or.1036, Cyc.242; “ξίφη” Onos.28; “ὀϊστούς” Jul.Or.7.229a:—Med., δόρυ θηξάσθω let him whet his spear, Il.2.382, cf. Phanocl.1.8.
2. metaph., sharpen, excite, Pi.O.10(11).20; “ἰάμβων τοὺς ὀδόντας” Babr.Prooem.2.14; provoke, “τὰς ψυχὰς εἰς τὰ πολεμικά” X.Cyr.2.1.20, cf. 1.2.10 (Pass.), Mem.3.3.7; “τεθηγμένον τοί μ᾽ οὐκ ἀπαμβλυνεῖς λόγῳ” A.Th.715; λόγοι τεθηγμένοι sharp, biting words. Id.Pr.313; “οὐ γάρ μ᾽ ἀρέσκει γλῶσσά σου τεθηγμένη” S.Aj.584; λῆμα τεθ. E.Or.1625; τῆς διανοίας ὀργῇ τεθ. Alcid. ap.Arist.Rh.1406a10.