A.defilement from blood, gore, Hom., only in dat., “λύθρῳ . . παλάσσετο χεῖρας” Il.11.169, 20.503; “αἵματι καὶ λύθρῳ πεπαλαγμένος” 6.268, Od.22.402: masc. “λύθρος” AP9.323 (Antip.), Ph. ap.Gal.13.268, Poll.1.46, M.Ant.3.3, Jul.Or.2.71a: the neut. λύθρον only in APl.4.112: in Medic., of the impure blood in a woman's womb, Plu.2.496b, 997a: pl., “ἐκ μητρῴων λύθρων” Hp.Ep.17; of blood in general, M.Ant.2.2; of the venom of the hydra, Euph.50.2. [υ^ by nature, APl.l.c., Epigr.Gr.314 (Smyrna).]
λύθρ-ον , τό, or λύθρ-ος , ὁ,
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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