The corpus record

καλλίρροος

kallirroos

beautiful-flowing

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Where it lives

Persians 1 · 1.96/10k
Works and Days 1 · 1.73/10k
Cratylus 2 · 1.12/10k
Iliad 3 · 0.27/10k

What it meant — LSJ

beautiful-flowing

beautiful-flowing, ὕδωρ, κρουνώ, Il. 2.752, 22.147; ποταμοῖο κατὰ στόμα καλλιρόοιο Od. 5.441; κρήνην καλλίροον 17.206; πηγή A. Pers. 201; Ὠκεανός Orph. Fr. 15: metaph., of the voice, καλλιρόοισι πνοαῖς Pi. O. 6.83:—fem., Καλλιρόη, one of the Oceanids, h.Cer. 419, Hes. Th. 288, etc.

pr. n., Καλλιρρόη, a famous spring at Athens, later Ἐννεάκρουνος, Th. 2.15, Pl. Ax. 364a.

In the wild

καλλιρρόου · kallirroou Aeschylus, Persians 201–204
καλλίρροον · kallirroon Works and Days 737–739
καλλίρροον · kallirroon Iliad 12.33
καλλίρροον · kallirroon Iliad 2.752
καλλιρρόω · kallirroō Iliad 22.147
καλλίρροος · kallirroos Plato, Cratylus 402 (DIORISIS sentence 514)

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