The corpus record

λῐβάς

libas · ἡ

anything that drips

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Where it lives

Persians 1 · 1.96/10k
Iphigenia in Tauris 1 · 1.21/10k
Philoctetes 1 · 1.14/10k

What it meant

λῐβάς · libas — LSJ

anything that drips, trickles, spring, fount, stream, standing water, streams, streams, pools of water

anything that drips or trickles, esp. spring, fount, stream, S. Ph. 1215 (lyr.), E. Andr. 116, 534 (lyr.); λ. νυμφαία Antiph. 52.13; standing water, Babr. 24.6: in pl., streams, λιβάσιν ὑδρηλαῖς . . πηγῆς A. Pers. 613; δακρύων λιβάδες streams of tears, E. IT 1106 (lyr.); γάλακτος A.R. 4.1735; also ἀραιὰ ἡ Αἴγυπτος καὶ ῥᾳδία λιβάδας διαδοῦναι Ephor. 65 J.: in pl., also of pools of water that collect after rain, ὑπόνομοι λ. Str. 8.6.21, cf. Gal. 6.627, Gp. 2.6.14; of marshes, Thphr. HP 2.4.4; cf.

II vessel that drips

vessel that drips when under the influence of heat, a rudimentary thermometer, Hero Spir. 2.8.

In the wild

λιβάσιν · libasin Aeschylus, Persians 607–615
λιβάδες · libades Euripides, Iphigenia in Tauris 1 (DIORISIS sentence 663)
λιβάδʼ · libadʼ Sophocles, Philoctetes 1212–1215

Where it came from

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