A.carry water by sluices or courses, Pl.Grg.493e ; “τὸ ἀπορρέον..δι᾽ ὀχετῶν ἐ.” Id.Criti.117b ; “τροφὴν τοῖς φυτευθεῖσι” Ph.1.398 ; “ἐ. ἄνθεσιν ὕδωρ” Longus 4.4 : metaph., “ὑφηγήσεις ἐ. ἀκοαῖς” Ph.2.359 ; “λόγος οἴνῳ τὸ φιλάνθρωπον ἐπὶ τὴν ψυχὴν..ἐ.” Plu.2.660c, cf. Jul.Or.4.137d, Dam. Pr.35, etc.:—Pass., to be so brought, “[αἷμα] ἐκ τῆς καρδίας ἐποχετεύεται καὶ εἰς τὰς φλέβας” Arist.PA666a6 ; [αἱ φλέβες] ἐς ἀλλήλας ἐποχετεύονται are conducted one into another, Hp.Oss.15 ; “ὕδωρ τὸ Ἰούλιον.. εἰς τὴν πόλιν ἐπωχετεύθη” D.C.48.32, cf. 49.42 : metaph., “ἔλλαμψις ἐκ τῶν πρώτων δυνάμεων ταῖς δευτέραις -εύεται” Herm.in Phdr.p.145A.:— Med., to have water brought upon them, to be irrigated, ἐποχετεύεται “τοῖς κοχλίαις τὰ λίαν ἔξαλα” Str.17.1.52 : metaph., ἐ. ἵμερον bring the waters of desire over oneself, bathe in them, Pl.Phdr.251e.
ἐποχετ-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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