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ῥεῦμα , ατος, τό, (ῥέω)
A.that which flows, current, stream, A.Pr.139 (anap.), X.HG4.2.11; μειλιχίων ποτῶν ῥ. S.OC160 (lyr.); “ἐλαίου ῥ. ἀψοφητὶ ῥέοντος” Pl.Tht.144b; “ῥεῦμα μελισσῶν” AP9.404 (Antiphil.): metaph., ῥ. αὔξης καὶ τροφῆς, ὄψεως, Pl.Ti.44b, 45c; “τὸ ἀκούειν γίνεται ῥεύματός τινος φερομένου ἀπὸ τοῦ φωνοῦντος” Epicur.Ep. 1p.13U.
2. stream of a river, Hdt.2.20, 24; “ῥ. Διρκαῖον” E.Supp.637, cf. IT401 (lyr.); τὸ τοῦ Νείλου ῥ. Pl. Ti.21e; also, eruption of lava, Th.3.116, Carc.5.7: metaph., stream or flood of men, “μεγάλῳ ῥ. φωτῶν” A.Pers. 88 (anap.); ῥ. Περσικοῦ στρατοῦ ib.412, cf. E.IT1437; πολλῷ ῥ. προσνισσόμενοι S.Ant.129(anap.); so “ῥεύματα ἐπῶν” Cratin.186; “κλαυθμῶν καὶ ὀδυρμῶν” Plu.2.609b.
3. flood, κατελθόντος αἰφνιδίου τοῦ ῥ. Th. 4.75, cf. Hdt.8.12; φερομένῳ συναπενεχθῆναι τῷ ῥ. Demad.15.
II. that which is always flowing or changing, τὸ τῆς τύχης . . ῥ. μεταπίπτει ταχύ the ebb and flow of fortune, Men.Georg.Fr.2.
III. Medic., humour or discharge from the body, flux, rheum, “διὰ τῶν ῥινῶν” Hp. VM18; “ῥ. εἰς τοὺς πόδας κατεληλύθει” Luc.Philops.6; “ῥ. νοσηματικά” Arist.Sens.444a13; στομάχου καὶ κοιλίας ῥ. Dsc.1.83; “κατασκῆψαι ῥ. εἰς τὰ νεῦρα” Paus.6.3.10: abs.,POxy.1088.1(i A.D.), Plu.Mar.34, etc.
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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