The headword is an adjective in the paradigmatic masculine nominative singular; cf. phi 555, beta 347 (gloss), gamma 396 (gloss), delta 324 (gloss), pi 81 (gloss), and see generally LSJ s.v.
[1] With an article in attributive position (Smyth, §1156), the glossing participle is the present middle/passive participle, masculine nominative singular, of the contract verb fobe/w, I put to flight; see generally LSJ s.v. The headword is identically glossed in Photius' Lexicon (phi232 Theodoridis, also with the Thucydides and Pherecrates citations: see below); cf. Etymologicum Magnum 797.54 and 541.51 (Kallierges).
[2] Thucydides 2.3.4, which actually has the comparative form of the headword adjective in the masculine nominative (and vocative) plural, foberw/teroi: web address 1. He is narrating the opening episode (431 BCE) of the Peloponnesian war, when citizens of Plataia (Plataea, allied with Athens, in southern Boeotia: Barrington Atlas map 55 grid E4; cf. pi 1700) rallied against a small occupying force of Thebans under cover of pre-dawn darkness, when the latter would presumably be surprised, more fearful, and easily overcome; cf. Aelius Dionysius *)attika\ o)no/mata s.v. piqanou/s, and pi 1574 (gloss).
[3] Pherecrates fr. 245 Kock (279 K.-A.), context-less.
[4] Arrian, Anabasis 5.24.7 (Roos, Alexandri Anabasis, p. 276). He is describing the flight of inhabitants from neighboring cities after Alexander's capture (326 BCE) of Sangala (Sagala, Sakala; present-day Sialkot, in north-eastern Punjab, Pakistan; Barrington Atlas map 6 grid C3); de Boor, p. 28. In her critical apparatus Adler notes that ms G and Arrian both transmit the aorist participle geno/menoi: having taken fright; that ms G reads e)/fugon (aorist), they fled; and that ms V reads a)polei/pontes (present tense, as opposed to the Suda's aorist): leaving the cities.
[5] Arrian, Parthica fr. 27 (Roos, Scripta Minora et Fragmenta, p. 290).
[6] An additional gloss on the headword (drawing attention to its opposite sense: see generally LSJ s.v.), perhaps extracted from the following quotation as transmitted (so Adler) by ms G. Alternatively, mss AVM read kataplhktiko/s for the headword in the quotation.
[7] Adler tentatively (and for no discernible reason) attributed this quotation to Diodorus Siculus, but latterly Favuzzi [see under alpha 1596] 202 finds vocabulary-based grounds for ascribing it to John of Antioch. Tyrrhenia is ancient Etruria, occupying the central-western region of the Italian peninsula, north of Latium and south of Liguria; cf. tau 837, tau 1195, and Barrington Atlas map 42 grids B1-3).