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ποτα?́μ-ιος , α, ον, also ος, ον E.El.309, but cf. 56:—
A.of or from a river, “ὄχθαι” A.Th.392; “ποτά” S.Fr.659.5; δρόσος, ὕδατα, χεύματα, ῥεῖθρα, E.Hipp.127 (lyr.), Alc.159, Hel.1304 (lyr.), El. 152 (lyr.), 794; “κύκνος” Id.Rh.618; “οἱ ἵπποι οἱ π.” Hdt.2.71, cf. Arist. HA502a9; “ὁ π. χοῖρος” Id.Fr.300; τὰ π. (sc. ζῷα), opp. τὰ θαλάττια, etc., Id.HA487a27; of plants, Thphr.HP4.10.1; “ναῦς” Jul.Or.1.22a; “ναῦται” PGiss.40 ii 18 (iii A. D.).
2. of cities, on a river, Pi.P.6.6; ποταμία (sc. χώρα) Str.11.3.2, al.
3. epith. of Artemis, from the connexion of her worship with that of rivers, Pi.P.2.7; “π. θεοί” Artem.2.34.
4. Ποτάμιος (sc. μήν), ὁ, month at Chalcedon, GD1 3053.
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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