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νᾶμα , ατος, τό, (νάω)
A.anything flowing, running water, stream, spring, ν. Μναμοσύνας cj. in Simon.45, cf. A.Pr.806, S.Ant.1130 (lyr.); “Κασταλίδος νάματα” Pae.Delph.1.6; “δακρύων θερμὰ ν.” S.Tr.919; “νάματ᾽ ὄσσων” E.HF625; “ν. πυρός” Id.Med.1187; “ν. Βάκχιον” Ar.Ec.14; “μὰ νάματα” Antiph.296 ( = Timocl.38); ν. θυγατέρων ταύρων, i.e. honey, Ph. Tars. ap. Gal.13.269; φλέγματος, χολῆς ν., Philostr.Gym.42: freq. in Pl., as “κρηνῶν καὶ ποταμῶν νάματα” Criti.111d: metaph., “λόγων ν.” Ti.75e.
2. wooden conduit, Hsch.
II. νάματα: προβολαί, Id.
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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