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ῥυ^τός , ή, όν, (ῥέω)
A.flowing, fluid, liquid, “ῥυτᾶς ἐξ ἁλός” A.Ag.1408 (lyr.); ῥ. πόροι (v. “πόρος” 1.3) Id.Eu.452; “ῥυτῶν ὑδάτων λουτρά” S.OC 1598; “παγά” E.Hipp.123 (lyr.); ὑγρὸν ῥ., opp. πακτόν, Ti.Locr.99c; [ὕδατα] ῥ. distd. fr. στάσιμα, Arist.Mete.353b19, cf. Thphr.CP2.6.3; distd. fr. φρεατιαῖα, Plu.2.954c.
II. ῥυ^τόν, τό, drinking-cup or horn, running to a point, where was a small hole, through which the wine ran in a thin stream, S.Fr.772, D.21.158, PPetr.3p.113 (iii B.C.), Inscr.Délos442B27 (ii B.C.), Plb.14.11.2, Plu.Alex.67; made in the form of an elephant, a trireme, the god Βησᾶς, Damox.1.2, Epin.2.1, Hedyl. ap. Ath.11.497d; funnel used as a filter, Ps.-Democr. ap. Zos. Alch.p.155B.; v. κρουνίζω:—Dim. ῾ρύτιον [υ^], τό, only in Lat. form rhytium, Mart.2.35.2.
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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