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χα^ράδρ-α , Ion. χαράδρη , ἡ,
A.mountain-stream, torrent, which cuts itself (χαράσσει) a way down the mountain-side, “κλειτῦς τότ᾽ ἀποτμήγουσι χαράδραι” Il.16.390, cf. D.P.1077; οἴνῳ . . ἅπασ᾽ ἔρρει χ. TeleclId.1.4 (anap.); “χ. χειμερίη” A.R.4.460; “χ. χειμάρρους καὶ βαθεῖα” Plb.10.30.2; φωνὴ χαράδρας ὄλεθρον τετοκυίας (of a loud, harsh voice), Ar.V.1034 (anap.); χ. κατελήλυθεν, of a torrent of words, Pherecr.51.
II. the bed of such a stream, gully, ravine, “κοίλης ἔντοσθε χαράδρης” Il.4.454; cf. Hdt.9.102, Th.3.98,107, X.An. 3.4.1, D.55.5; “χ. κρημνώδης” Th.7.78; “ἡ Νεμεὰς χ.” Aeschin.2.168, cf. X.HG4.2.15.
2. metaph. of wounds produced by scourging, Lib.Or.57.16.
3. prov., Οἰνώνη (fort. Οἰνόη） τὴν χ. of those who bring misfortune on themselves, interpol. in Str.8.6.16.
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 (13):
    • Aeschines, On the Embassy, 168
    • Aristophanes, Wasps, 1034
    • Demosthenes, Against Callicles, 5
    • Herodotus, Histories, 9.102
    • Homer, Iliad, 16.390
    • Homer, Iliad, 4.454
    • Strabo, Geography, 8.6.16
    • Xenophon, Anabasis, 3.4.1
    • Xenophon, Hellenica, 4.2.15
    • Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica, 4.460
    • Polybius, Histories, 10.30.2
    • Thucydides, Histories, 3.98
    • Thucydides, Histories, 7.78
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