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πότι^μος , ον, (πότος, πίνω) mostly of water,
A.drinkable, fresh, Heraclit.61, Hdt.8.22, Hp.Medic.2, X.HG3.2.19; “κρήνη” Plb.34.9.5: generally, “τὰ π.” Thphr.Od.65.
2. metaph., fresh, sweet, pleasant, “καρποὶ γλυκεῖς καὶ π.” Id.CP4.4.12; π. λόγος, opp. ἁλμυρὰ ἀκοή, Pl.Phdr.243d; of the writings of Isoc., Phld.Rh.1.200S., cf. Lib.p.46O. (Comp.); π. δόγματα, ἔννοιαι, Ph.2.275, 1.72; τὰ χρηστὰ καὶ π., opp. τὰ δυσχερῆ καὶ μοχθηρά, Plu.2.469c.
b. of persons, pleasant, sociable, Theoc.29.31 (Comp.); so also “ποτιμώτερον συμπόσιον” Hld.3.10. Adv., “σοφῶς καὶ π.” Philostr. VS1.8.4.
3. porous, “λίθος” Pl.Lg.947d.
4. watered, irrigated, Apollon.Lex. s.v. πείσεα.
5. = δευτερίας, Dsc.5.6.15.
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 (6):
    • Herodotus, Histories, 8.22
    • Plato, Laws, 947d
    • Plato, Phaedrus, 243d
    • Xenophon, Hellenica, 3.2.19
    • Polybius, Histories, 34.9.5
    • Philostratus the Athenian, Lives of the Sophists, 1.8.4
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