- ἄμπωτις
- ἄμπωτις, ἡ, gen. εως, [dialect] Ion. ιος, for ἀνάπωτις ([etym.] ἀναπίνομαι), v. infr.:—A being sucked back, i.e. of sea, ebb, opp., πλημμυρίς or ῥαχία ([dialect] Ion. ῥηχίη), Hdt.2.11, 7.198, 8.129, Arist.Mete.366a19, Placit.3.17, Agatharch. 32, etc.: in pl., ebb and flow, tides, Arist.Mu.396a26, Peripl.M.Rubr. 45, App.Hisp.1, Hdn.3.14.6.—The full form [full] ἀνάπωτις only Pi.O. 9.52, Scymn.110, and later Prose, Plb.10.14.2 (s. v.l.), Arr.Ind.22.8: gen. -πώτιδος, Agatharch.101.2 retiring of a stream, Call.Del. 130.3 metaph.,
τῆς ἀδολεσχίας ὥσπερ ἄμπωτιν λαβούσης Plu. 2.502d
.II return of humours inward from surface of body,ἄ. τῶν χυμῶν Hp.Hum.1
, cf. Erot.Fr.8; of blood in the lungs, Gal. UP6.10.
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