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ἐπιρρώομαι , old Ep. pres.: aor.1 Med. ἐπερρώσαντο:—
A.apply one's strength to a thing, work lustily at it, c. dat., [μύλαις] δώδεκα πᾶσαι ἐπερρώοντο γυναῖκες worked with might and main at the mill, Od.20.107; “ἐπερρώοντ᾽ ἐλάτῃσι” A.R.2.661.
2.. move nimbly, “ποσσὶν ἐπερρώσαντο” Hes.Th.8, cf. A.R.1.385 (tm.): c. acc. cogn., ἐπίρρωσαι δὲ χορείην urge the rapid dance, AP9.403 (Maec.).
3.. follow rapidly, “ἐπερρώοντο τιθήνῃ” Coluth.101.
II.. flow or stream upon (one's head), χαῖται ἐπερρώσαντο ἄνακτος κρατὸς ἀπ᾽ ἀθανάτοιο his locks flowed waving from his head, Il.1.529; “πλοχμοὶ . . ἐπερρώοντο κιόντι” A.R.2.677.
Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. A Greek-English Lexicon. revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones. with the assistance of. Roderick McKenzie. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1940.

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