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ὀχετός

ochetos · ὁ

means for carrying water, water-pipe

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Where it lives

  • Timaeus 6 · 2.54/10k
  • Critias 1 · 2.02/10k
  • Suppliants 1 · 1.42/10k
  • Iphigenia in Aulis 1 · 1.12/10k
  • Orestes 1 · 1.02/10k
  • Athenian Constitution 1 · 0.61/10k
  • Economics 1 · 0.56/10k
  • Phaedo 1 · 0.46/10k
  • Meditations 1 · 0.34/10k
  • Memorabilia 1 · 0.28/10k
  • Anabasis 1 · 0.18/10k
  • Politics 1 · 0.15/10k

Densest 12 of 14 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant — LSJ

means for carrying water, water-pipe, conduit, channel, drains

means for carrying water, water-pipe, made of leather, Hdt. 3.9; when carried underground, sts. of wood, IG 1(2).373.64, 66, 2(2).1672.305; of stone, ὀ. λίθινος κρυπτός ib. 7.4255.5 (Oropus, iv B. C.); material not named, Th. 6.100, Pl. Phd. 112c, etc.; τοὺς προϋπάρχοντας ὀ. κρυπτοὺς ποιεῖν OGI 483.74 (Pergam.); conduit, channel, Arist. Pol. 1303b13, al.; ὀ. μετέωροι open drains, Id. Ath. 50.2, OGI 483.63 (Pergam.); = ἀφεδρών, Ev.Marc. 7.19 (cod. D).

2 ducts, canals

in Anatomy, τῆς ἀρτηρίας ὀχετοί ducts leading to the lungs, Pl. Ti. 70d; οἱ τοῦ αἵματος ὀ. Poll. 2.217; of the urinal and intestinal canals, Hp. Art. 48, 50, X. Mem. 1.4.6; ὥσπερ ἐξ ὀχετῶν (of sweat), Hp. Epid. 6.3.1.

II streams

in pl., streams, Pi. O. 5.12; Σιμούντιοι ὀ. E. Or. 809 (lyr.), IA 767 (lyr.).

III a side channel, means of escape, currents

metaph., βαθὺς ὀ. ἄτας Pi. O. 10(11).37; παρεκτρέποντες ὀ. ὥστε μὴ θανεῖν making a side channel or means of escape, E. Supp. 1111; ὀχετοὶ βοτρύων Pherecr. 130.7, cf. Telecl. 1.9; ἐν τοῖς μεριστοῖς ὀ. currents, Dam. Pr. 127, cf. 130, 206.

IV

Att. for βόρβορος acc. to Hellad. ap. Phot. p.535 B.

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