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χολή , ἡ,
A.gall, bile, Archil.131, A.Ch.184, E.Fr.682, Th.2.49, etc.; χ. μέλαινα black, i. e. diseased, bile, Hp.Aph.4.23, Pl.Ti.83c (but, = μελαγχολία, Men.Epit.459); “ξανθὴ χ.” Hp.VM19; “πυρρά” Gal.15.658; χολὴν ἐμεῖν, βῆξαι, Nicopho 12, Herod.3.70 (prob. l.): prov., “πικρῷ πικρὰν κλύζουσι φαρμάκῳ χολήν” S.Fr.854; “πικρότερ᾽ αὐτῆς τῆς χ.” Alex. 16.12; χολῇ ἀλείφειν, prov. of giving one a disgust for a thing, from the custom of mothers putting gall to the nipple when the child was to be weaned, Diph.74.
2. pl. χολαί, gall-bladder, S.Ant. 1010; called δοχαὶ χολῆς, E.El.828; also in sg., A.Pr.495; “χολὴν τῶν ζῴων τὰ μὲν ἔχει τὰ δ᾽ οὐκ ἔχει” Arist.HA506a20, cf. PA 677b11.
3. metaph. (mostly in Poets) like χόλος (q. v.), bile, gall, i. e. bitter anger, wrath, Ar.Pax66; “ἢ γυναιξὶν οὐκ οἴει χολὴν ἐνεῖναι;” Id.Lys.465; “οὐδεὶς χολὴν οὐδ᾽ ὀργὴν ἔχων φανήσεται” D.25.27; πάνυ ἐστ᾽ ἤδη χ. stirs my bile, makes me sick, Ar.Ra.4; ἐπιζεῖ χ. the bile boils over, Id.Th.468; “χολὴν κινεῖν” Id.V.403, cf. Pherecr. 69.
II. ink of the cuttle-fish, Nic.Al.473, Th.561.
III. in LXX = Hebr. rôsh, a poisonous plant, variously called hemlock or poppy, Ps.68(69).22, Je.8.14.
IV. serpent's venom, χ. ἀσπίδος ib.Jb.20.14; of the hydra's venom, Apollod.2.5.2, D.S. 4.11.
V. bitter drink, Ev.Matt.27.34. (With χολή, χόλος, cf. Lat.fel, ONorse gall, etc., 'bile, gall':—prob. the name is derived from the colour of bile, and is cogn. with Lat. (h）olus, helvus, Germ. gelb 'yellow', perh. also χλόη.）
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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