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ἱδρ-ώς (v. fin.), ῶτος, ὁ, and Aeol. ἡ, Sapph.2.13; dat. ἱδρῶτι, acc. ἱδρῶτα; Hom. has dat. ἱδρῷ (not ἱδρῶ as Choerob. in Theod.1.248) Il.17.385,745; acc.
A.“ἱδρῶ” 11.621,22.2, cf. A.R.2.87, 4.656: (ἶδος):— sweat, Hom.(v. infr.), etc.; “μετὰ ἱδρῶτος” Pl.R.350d; “κατὰ δ᾽ ἱ. ἔρρεεν ἐκ μελέων” Od.11.599; “ἱ. ἀνῄει χρωτί” S.Tr.767; στάζειν ἱδρῶτι (v. στάζω）“; ῥέεσθαι ἱδρῶτι” Plu.Cor.3; of sweat as the sign of toil, “τῆς ἀρετῆς ἱδρῶτα θεοὶ προπάροιθεν ἔθηκαν” Hes.Op.289; “ἱδρῶτα παρέχειν” X.Cyr.2.1.29: pl., Hp.Aph.4.36, Arist.Pr.867a13, etc.; ἱδρῶτες ξηροί, opp. the effect of baths, Pl.Phdr.239c.
2. exudation of trees, gum, resin, “σμύρνης” E.Ion 1175; δρυός Ion Trag.40; Βρομιάδος ἱδρῶτα πηγῆς, of wine, Antiph.52.12.
II. metaph., anything earned by the sweat of one's brow, “οὐ γὰρ τὸν ἐμὸν ἱδρῶτα . . ἐκβαλῶ” Ar.Ec.750, cf. Chor.p.270 B. (pl.). [ι_ in Ep. and Lyr.: ι^ in E.l.c.] (Cf. ἰδίω.)
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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