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ὑδα^ρής , ές, (ὕδωρ)
A.watery, “ὑδαρὲς διαχωρεῖν” Hp.Prog.11; “ἰχῶρες” Arist.HA586b33, etc.
2. mostly of wine, mixed with too much water, “ὑδαρἦ 'νέχεέν σοι;—παντάπασι μὲν οὖν ὕδωρ” Pherecr. 70, cf. Hp. Aër.9 (Sup.), X.Lac.1.3, Alex.226, 230, Gal.6.272 (Comp.); “κεράννυται οὔθ᾽ ὑδαρὲς οὔτ᾽ ἄκρατον” Antiph. 24; “κυλίκιον ὑ.” Lyc.Fr.2: metaph., τὸ χρύσιον κέρναν ὐδαρέστερον, i.e. mix with a higher proportion of alloy, IG12(2).1.14 (Mytil., iv B. C.).
3. metaph., washy, feeble, languid, “ὑδαρεῖ σαίνειν φιλότητι” A.Ag.798 (anap.); “φιλία” Arist.Pol.1262b15; “μῦθος” Id.Po.1462b7; “ὑ. καὶ ψυχρὸς λόγος” D.H.Din. 11.
II. of colour, watery, pale grey, “ὄμμα προβάτων” Arist.GA779a32.
III. of taste, insipid, as plums, Thphr.HP1.12.1.
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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  • Cross-references in general dictionaries from this page (5):
    • Aristotle, Poetics, 1462b.7
    • Xenophon, Constitution of the Lacedaimonians, 1.3
    • Aeschylus, Agamemnon, 798
    • Hippocrates, Prognosticon, 11
    • Dionysius of Halicarnassus, De Dinarcho, 11
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