- ῥόος
- ῥόος, ὁ, Cypr.A
ῥόϝος Inscr.Cypr.135.19
H., [dialect] Att. [var] contr. [full] ῥοῦς: [dialect] Ion. and later writers have the heterocl. dat. ῥοΐ (like νοΐ from νοῦς), Hellanic. 28J., Ach.Tat.3.20; also gen.ῥοός Peripl.M.Rubr.46
: ([etym.] ῥέω):— stream, flow of water, current, Hom. only in sg., freq. with gen., ῥ. Ἀλφειοῖο, Ὠκεανοῖο, etc., Il.11.726, 16.151, al.;κῦμα ῥόοιο 21.263
; προχέειν ῥόον εἰς ἅλα ib.219; ποταμοὺς ἔτρεψε νέεσθαι κὰρ ῥόον to flow in their own bed, 12.33; κατὰ ῥόον down, i.e. with, the stream, Od.5.327,461, Hdt.2.96, etc.: metaph.,φέρεσθαι κατὰ ῥοῦν Pl.R.492c
;ταυτὶ κατὰ ῥ. προχωρεῖ Luc.JTr.50
; πρὸς ῥόον against it, Il.21.303;Βόσπορος, ῥ. θεοῦ A.Pers.746
(troch.); current at sea,ὑπό τε τοῦ ῥοῦ καὶ ἀνέμου Th.1.54
;εἰκῇ κατὰ ῥοῦν πλέοντας Phld.Rh.1.381S.
: also, current of air, Emp.100.14;ῥόος καπνοῦ Pi.P.1.22
.II flux, discharge of morbid humours, Hp.Aph.5.56, Arist HA521a28, Thphr.HP9.12.1.III = ῥοή 3, Pl.Cra.411d.IV v. ῥόον.
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