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ῥεῖθρον

reithron · τό

that which flows, a river, stream

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Where it lives

  • Antigone 3 · 4.09/10k
  • On Hunting 3 · 3.3/10k
  • Electra 2 · 2.65/10k
  • Persians 1 · 1.96/10k
  • Works and Days 1 · 1.73/10k
  • Prometheus Bound 1 · 1.7/10k
  • Iliad 19 · 1.7/10k
  • Theogony 1 · 1.45/10k
  • Agamemnon 1 · 1.23/10k
  • Iphigenia in Tauris 1 · 1.21/10k
  • Histories 22 · 1.2/10k
  • Phoenissae 1 · 1.04/10k

Densest 12 of 16 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant — LSJ

that which flows, a river, stream, the streams, waters, streams, rivulets, brooks

that which flows, a river, stream, ποταμοῖο ῥέεθρα the streams, waters of . ., Il. 14.245; ἐρατεινὰ ῥ. 21.218; Στυγὸς ὕδατος αἰπὰ ῥ. 8.369, cf. h.Hom. 19.9, etc.; παρθενόσφαγα ῥ. streams of a maidenʼs blood, A. Ag. 210 (lyr.): sg., ἐκτρέψασα τοῦ ποταμοῦ τὸ ῥέεθρον πᾶν ἐς τὸ ὤρυξε χωρίον Hdt. 1.186, cf. 179, Th. 7.74; Ἀλφεοῦ ῥέεθρον Pi. O. 9.18; ῥέεθρον ἁγνοῦ Στρυμόνος A. Pers. 497; ὅταν περάσῃς ῥεῖθρον Id. Pr. 790; esp. of rivulets, brooks, X. Cyn. 5.15, Plb. 3.71.4, Jul. Or. 3.126d.

II bed, channel of a river

bed or channel of a river, ἄψορρον . . κῦμα κατέσσυτο καλὰ ῥέεθρα Il. 21.382; ποταμοῦ ῥ. ἀπεξηρασμένον Hdt. 7.109; ποταμὸν ἐκτραπέσθαι ἐκ τῶν ἀρχαίων ῥ. Id. 1.75; παρατρέψας [τὸν ποταμὸν] διʼ ὧν νῦν ῥέει ῥεέθρων, i.e. ἐκ τῶν ῥεέθρων διʼ ὧν νῦν ῥέει, Id. 7.130, cf. 127:—signf. I and ΙΙ are sts. hard to distinguish, cf. Hdt. 1.191, 2.11, 9.51.

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Where it came from

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