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δρόσος , ἡ,
A.dew, Hdt.2.68, Pl.Ti.59e: pl., A.Ag.336, S.Aj.1208 (lyr.), etc.
2. in Poets, pure water, “ποντία δ.” A.Eu.904; δρόσῳ ἐναλίᾳ, θαλασσίᾳ, E.IT255, 1192; “ποταμίᾳ δ.” Id.Hipp.127 (lyr.); ποταμίαισι δρόσοις ib.78; “ἐπὶ κρηναίαισι δρόσοις” Id.IA182 (lyr.); δρόσος alone, “Ἀχελῴου δ.” Id.Andr.167; “καθαραῖς δρόσοις” Id.Ion 96 (lyr.); “ἐκ ποταμῶν δρόσον ἄρατε” Ar.Ra.1339.
3. of other liquids, “δ. ἀμπέλου” Pi.O.7.2; “δ. φοινία” A.Ag.1390, etc.; “ἀπόπτυστος” Ar.Eq. 1285; of oil, AP5.3 (Phld.); of honey, Philostr.Her.19.19; “δ. καλάμου” sugar, Antyll. ap. Orib.10.27.18: metaph., “δρόσος κώμων” Pi.P. 5.99.
4. down on the cheek, “δ. καὶ χνοῦς” Ar.Nu.978, cf. Plu.2.79d.
II. metaph., the young of animals, A.Ag.141 (lyr., pl.): in sg., “δ. Ἡφαίστοιο” Call.Hec.1.2.3.
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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