A.whistling or whizzing of an arrow, Il.16.361, cf. Plu.Marc.15, Onos.19.3, etc.; of a scourge, Opp.H.2.352: any whistling or piping sound, as of a shepherd, πολλῇ ῥ. Od.9.315; πνευμάτων ῥ. Plu.2.18c; rush of wings, LXX Wi.5.11, Ael.NA2.26; of a stream, LXXEz.47.5, Ael.NA17.17; of the sea, Hymn.Is.150; of the noise of a falling tree, Q.S.1.251; hissing of a serpent, A.R. 4.138, 1543; used of the sound made by filing, Arist.Aud.802a39; of the letter ρ, Phld.Po.Herc.994.29, D.H.Comp.14, S.E.M.1.102.
ῥοῖζ-ος , ὁ, Ion. ἡ,
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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