Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, A Greek-English Lexicon, χοή

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A.pouring out of liquid, drink-offering, esp. made to the dead or over their graves (opp. λοιβή, σπονδή made to the gods), χοὴν χεῖσθαι νεκύεσσιν (where it is mixed with milk), of honey, wine, and water, poured out in succession, Od.10.518, cf. 11.26, Arist.Mu.400b22: freq. in Trag., always in pl. (as also Hdt.7.43), “χέουσα κηδείους χοάς” A.Ch.87; “χοὰς φέρειν τινί” Id.Pers.609, Ch.15, etc.; “χ. γῇ τε καὶ φθιτοῖς χέασθαι” Id.Pers.219 (troch.), cf. S.OC477; “κεχυμένων χοᾶν” A.Ch.156 (lyr.); σπεῖσαι, κατασπείσειν, ἐπισπένδειν, E.Or.1322,1187, A.Ch.149; “πέμπειν” Id.Pers.624 (anap.); “δοῦναι” S.Ant.902, etc.; “πατρὶ τυμβεῦσαι χ.” Id.El. 406; αἴρειν, στάξαι, E.Hec.529, Heracl.1040; “χοαῖσι στέφειν τὸν νέκυν” S.Ant.431; “ἱλάσκεσθαι γῆν” X.Cyr.3.3.22.

2. rarely of libations in general, S.OC469, 1599.

II. generally, stream, “Ἀχέροντος ἄρσενας χοάς” Id.Fr.523.—Mostly poet.

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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- Xenophon, Cyropaedia, 3.3.22
- Homer, Odyssey, 10.518
- Sophocles, Ichneutae, 523

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