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ῥύπος [υ^], ὁ,
A.dirt, filth, used by Hom. once in heterocl.pl., “κάθηράν τε ῥύπα πάντα” Od.6.93: later in sg., Semon.7.63, A.Fr.82 (cf. Ar. Fr.892), Pl.Prm.130c, Eup.252, Alex.197, etc.; ὁ ἐν τοῖς ὠσὶ ῥ. Arist. Pr.960b18, cf. Artem.1.24, PMag.Osl.1.332; “ῥ. ὁ ἀπὸ τῶν ἐν τοῖς γυμνασίοις ἀνδριάντων” Gal.12.116; “τὸν ἀπὸ τῶν ὀνύχων ῥύπον” Suid. s.v. γρύ; ἅπαν ῥύπον all of it filth (acc.), Theoc.15.20; of a person, “πρὸς τὸ μὴ λοῦσθαι ῥύπος” Aristopho 10.4:—also ῥύπος , εος, τό, of cheese-parings, Hp.Mul.1.64.
2. metaph., sordidness, meanness, “ὁ ῥ. τοῦ χαμαὶ βίου” M.Ant.7.47.
II. sealing-wax, “τοὺς ῥ. ἀνασπάσαι” Ar. Lys.1198.
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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  • Cross-references in general dictionaries from this page (4):
    • Homer, Odyssey, 6.93
    • Plato, Parmenides, 130c
    • Aristophanes, Lysistrata, 1198
    • Marcus Aurelius, M. Antonius Imperator Ad Se Ipsum, 7.47
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