A.“ῥα^νῶ” Antiph.217.12, Lyc. 1104, but Att. also ῥα_νῶ (like φα_νῶ) acc. to A.D.Adv.187.27: aor. “ἔρρα_να” Arched.2.5, E.Rh.73, Cyc.402 (ἐξ-), Trag.Adesp.90; Ion. “ἔρρηνα” Hp. (v. infr.); “ἔρηνα” Opp.H.2.100: pf. ἔρραγκα （δι-) LXX Pr.7.17:— Med., aor. ἐρρα_νάμην （περι-) Aristobul.6 J., Plu.Arist.20, Longus 3.28:—Pass., aor. “ἐρράνθην” Pi.P.5.100, Arist.Pr.938a35: pf. ἔρραμμαι Persae. ap. Ath.4.140f; later ἔρρασμαι Sch.D Il.12.431.—Ep. aor. imper. “ῥάσσατε” Od.20.150, 3pl. pf. Pass. ἐρράδαται ib.354, plpf. “ἐρράδατο” Il.12.431 [α^] are formed as if from pres. ῥάζω , cf. “περιρραίνω” 1.
I. sprinkle, besprinkle, with acc. of the object besprinkled,
1. prop. with liquids, ῥάσσατε (sc. δῶμα ὕδατι) Od.20.150; “ῥᾶνον δόμους” Com.Adesp.1211, cf. Thphr.CP4.3.3; “ὕδατι τοὺς λειποψυχοῦντας” Id.Fr.10.6; “φόνῳ πεδίον” Pi.I. l.c.; “ἐλαίῳ ῥήνας” Hp. Fract.21; ἐκ καλπίδων μύροις ῥ. Plb.30.25.17:—Pass., “πύργοι καὶ ἐπάλξιες αἵματι φωτῶν ἐρράδατ᾽” Il.12.431; “αἵματι δ᾽ ἐρράδαται τοῖχοι” Od.20.354; “αἵματι βωμὸς ἐραίνετ᾽” E.IA[1589]; “τὰ πρόσωπα διὰ τὸ ῥαίνεσθαι μέλανα γίνεται” Arist.HA579a2.
2. also of solids, bestrew, besprinkle, [“ἵπποι] ῥαίνοντο κονίῃ” Il.11.282; “ῥ. χθόνα καρπῷ” Nonn.D.2.65.
3. metaph., ῥ. τινὰ ὕμνῳ, νᾶσον εὐλογίαις, Pi.P.8.57, I.6(5).21; “θεῶν . . ὅμιλον ἀμβρότᾳ ῥαίνοις α μοίσᾳ” IG42(1).130.24.
II. sprinkle, scatter, with acc. of the thing scattered or sprinkled, ῥανῶ τε πεδόσ᾽ ἐγκέφαλον will scatter it on the ground, E.Fr.384 (dub. l.); ῥαίνειν sprinkle (water) on the fish, Xenarch. l.c.; ῥαίνειν ὀξίδας ἐς τὰ βλέφαρα sprinkle vinegar in their eyes, Ar.Ra.1441; “ῥ. πυρούς” Opp.H.2.100; “χοάς” Lyc.1185.
