Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, A Greek-English Lexicon

A.red, “νέκταρ ἐ.” Il.19.38, Od.5.93 ; “χαλκός” Il. 9.365 ; “χρυσὸν ἐ. ἰδεῖν” Thgn.450 ; κῆρυξ ἐ., a ship painted with vermilion, Orac. ap. Hdt.3.57 ; “-ότερον κόκκον” Dromo l.c.; ἐ. πέλανος, of blood, A.Eu.265 (lyr.); ἐρυθρά, τά, red pimples, eruption, Hp.Liqu.6 ; but ἐ. διελθόντα red motions, Id.Coac.178.

2. ἐρυθρά, ἡ,=μελισσόφυλλον, Ps.-Dsc.3.104 ; ἐρυθρός, ὁ (sc. ῥου^ς), fruit of the ῥου^ς βυρσοδεψική, Dsc.1.108.

3. ἐρυθρόν, τό, ᾠοῦ yolk, Sor.1.124, Orib.Syn.5.13.

II. Ἐρυθρὴ θάλασσα in Hdt. the Indian Ocean, in which the Red Sea (Ἀράβιος κόλπος) is sts. included (of the existence of the Persian Gulf he was ignorant), 1.180, 2.11,158, 4.42, al.; “πόντος Ἐ.” Pi.P.4.251—later the Red Sea only, OGI69,186,190, al.: also of the Persian Gulf, X.Cyr.8.6.20, D.S.2.11 ; Peripl.M.Rubr. prob. mentions Zanzibar and China ; used of remote and unknown places, “μόνον οὐκ ἐπὶ τὴν Ἐ. θάλατταν πρεσβείας πέμπειν” D.19.304 : really ἡ Ἐρύθρα θάλασσα sea of Erythras, acc. to Agatharch.5. (Lat. rubrofr. *rudhro-, cf. Skt. rudhirá- ; v. ἐρεύθω.）