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καλλί-ρροος , ον, poet. also καλλίροος [ι^] (contr. καλλίρους S.Fr.649.39),
A.beautiful-flowing, ὕδωρ, κρουνώ, Il.2.752, 22.147; “ποταμοῖο κατὰ στόμα καλλιρόοιο” Od.5.441; “κρήνην καλλίροον” 17.206; “πηγή” A.Pers.201; “Ὠκεανός” Orph. Fr.15: metaph., of the voice, “καλλιρόοισι πνοαῖς” Pi.O.6.83:—fem., Καλλιρόη, one of the Oceanids, h.Cer.419, Hes.Th.288, etc.
II. pr. n., Καλλιρρόη, a famous spring at Athens, later Ἐννεάκρουνος, Th. 2.15, Pl.Ax.364a.
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 (9):
    • Aeschylus, Persians, 201
    • Hesiod, Theogony, 288
    • Homer, Odyssey, 17.206
    • Homer, Odyssey, 5.441
    • Homeric Hymns, Hymn 2 to Demeter, 419
    • Homer, Iliad, 22.147
    • Homer, Iliad, 2.752
    • Sophocles, Ichneutae, 649.39
    • Thucydides, Histories, 2.15
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