Similarly glossed in other lexica; evidently quoted from somewhere (and cf. under alpha 537, gamma 282, epsilon 3670, chi 186).
"Ἵπταμαι is first found in late writers, Moschus 3.43, Babrius 65.4, etc. (mostly in compounds ...), and is censured by Lucian Lexiphanes 25, Soloecista 7": LSJ s.v. πέτομαι .