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ῥοή , ἡ, Dor. ῥοά (dat.pl. ρjοϝαῖσι , IG9(1).868 (Corc., vii/vi B.C.)), (ῥέω)
A.river, stream, freq. in Hom., always in pl., and mostly with gen. added, “ἐπ᾽ Ὠκεανοῖο ῥοάων” Il.3.5; “Μαιάνδρου τε ῥοάς” 2.869; “ποταμοῖο ῥοῇσι” Od.6.216; ὕδατος καλῇσι ῥ. Il.16.229, cf. Schwyzer 289.107 (Priene, ii B.C.); Ὠκεανοῦ ῥ. Hes.Th.841; also Σκαμάνδριοι ῥ. S.Aj. 419 (lyr.); τεναγέων ῥ. Pi.N.3.25; ἀμπέλου ῥ. the juice of the grape, E.Cyc.123; “μέλιτος” Id.Ba.711; “αἵματος” Id.Supp.690: rarely in sg., “παρ᾽ Ἰσμηνοῦ ῥοάν” Pi.N.11.36 codd. (but ῥοᾶν is prob.); “ἀμπέλου ῥοή” E.Ba.281: in Dor. Prose, SIG1183 (Gort.): metaph., stream of song or poesy, ῥοαὶ Μοισᾶν, ἐπέων, Pi.N.7.12, I.7(6)19; ἡ διὰ τοῦ στόματος ῥ. Pl.Tht.206d; “προμαθείας ῥοαί” Pi.N.11.46; also ῥοαί streams of events, tide of affairs, Id.O.2.33.
2. flowing of sap, Thphr.CP1.13.5 (pl.).
3. flux, as a philosoph. term, Pl.Tht.152e, v. Cra. 402a; cf. “ῥέω” 1.5. Cf. “ῥόος” 11, “ῥοία” 1.
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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