A.moisture, e.g. of oily leather, Il.17.392; “ἰκμάδος ἐστὶ ἐν αὐτῇ [τῇ Λιβύῃ] οὐδέν” Hdt.4.185; ἀνιεὶς ἐκ τοῦ σώματος ἰκμάδα, of a corpse exposed to the sun, Id.3.125, cf. Hp.Aër.8; of moisture in the soil, Ev.Luc.8.6; also θανόντων ἰσὶν οὐκ ἔνεστ᾽ ἰκμάς no blood, A.Fr.229 (prob.); of the bodily humours, Hp.Morb.4.40; of all kinds of animal juices or moist secretions, “τὸ περίττωμα τῆς ὑγρᾶς ἰ. ὃν καλοῦμεν ἱδρῶτα” Arist.PA668b4; ἡ τῶν καταμηνίων ἰ. Id.GA727b11, cf. HA556b27, al.: com. metaph., “τὴν ἰ. τῆς φροντίδος” Ar.Nu.233; ἰ. Βάκχου, i.e. wine, AP5.133 (Posidipp.); ἰ. δρυός, i.e. gum, ib.6.109 (Antip.).
ἰκμ-άς , άδος, ἡ,
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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