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ψα^κάς , Ion. and later (cf. Moer.p.419 P.) ψεκάς , άδος, ἡ:—
A.drop of rain, “ὅταν μὲν κατὰ μικρὰ φέρηται, ψακάδες, ὅταν δὲ κατὰ μείζω μόρια, ὑετὸς καλεῖται” Arist.Mete.347a11, cf. 348a7, al.; particle, ib.373b16: mostly collect., drizzle, ψακὰς δὲ λήγει, i. e. heavy rain (ὄμβρος) is coming, A.Ag.1534 (lyr.); opp. ὑετοί, X.Cyn.5.4 (pl.); “ὕσθησαν αἱ Θῆβαι ψακάδι” Hdt.3.10: generally, rain, “ὑπὸ στέγῃ πυκνῆς ἀκοῦσαι ψακάδος” S.Fr.636, cf. E.Hel.2, Ar.Th.856; so ψεκάς Hp.Epid.2.3.1: “ψεκάδες” showers, Gal.17(1).37; also φοίνισσα ψακάς a shower of blood, Simon.106; “βάλλει μ᾽ ἐρεμνῇ ψακάδι φοινίας δρόσου” A.Ag.1390; Βρομίου ψακάδεσσι, i. e. drops of wine, Critias 1.10.
2. Comic name for a sputterer, Ar.Ach.1150 (lyr.), cf. Suid. s.v.
II. metaph. of solids, ἀργυρίου μηδὲ ψακάς not a drop of money, Ar.Pax121; [ψάμμου] ψεκάς grains of sand, AP12.145. (ψακάς prob. by assimilation from ψεκάς.）
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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