A.conduct water by a conduit or canal, “τὸν ποταμὸν ὀχετεῦσαι” Hdt.2.99, cf. PPetr.1p.78 (iii B. C.): metaph., “ἐκ στομάτων καθαρὴν ὀχετεύσατε πηγήν” Emp.4.2; “πῦρ ἐπὶ πῦρ ὀ. εἰς τὸ σῶμα” Pl.Lg.666a; “ἡ φύσις τὸ αἷμα διὰ παντὸς ὠχέτευκε τοῦ σώματος” Arist.PA668a20:—Med., “ῥοῦν ὀχετευσάμενος” AP9.162:—Pass., to be conducted, conveyed, “ὕδωρ ὀχετευόμενον διὰ σωλήνων” Hdt.3.60; “πρὸς οἶκον ὠχετεύετο φάτις” A.Ag. 867; ὀχετεύσομαι in pass. sense, Pherecr.130.8.
ὀχετ-εύω ,
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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