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ῥεῦμα

reuma · τό

that which flows, current, stream

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Where it lives

  • Critias 2 · 4.05/10k
  • Persians 2 · 3.93/10k
  • Timaeus 9 · 3.81/10k
  • Prometheus Bound 2 · 3.4/10k
  • Iphigenia in Tauris 2 · 2.41/10k
  • Phaedo 5 · 2.29/10k
  • De Respiratione 1 · 1.65/10k
  • De Mundo 1 · 1.58/10k
  • Suppliants 1 · 1.42/10k
  • Antigone 1 · 1.36/10k
  • Theaetetus 3 · 1.33/10k
  • De Sensu et Sensibilibus 1 · 1.28/10k

Densest 12 of 29 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant — LSJ

that which flows, current, stream

that which flows, current, stream, A. Pr. 139 (anap.), X. HG 4.2.11; μειλιχίων ποτῶν ῥ. S. OC 160 (lyr.); ἐλαίου ῥ. ἀψοφητὶ ῥέοντος Pl. Tht. 144b; ῥεῦμα μελισσῶν AP 9.404 (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, eruption of lava, stream, flood of men

stream of a river, Hdt. 2.20, 24; ῥ. Διρκαῖον E. Supp. 637, cf. IT 401 (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. IT 1437; πολλῷ ῥ. προσνισσόμενοι S. Ant. 129 (anap.); so ῥεύματα ἐπῶν Cratin. 186; κλαυθμῶν καὶ ὀδυρμῶν Plu. Cons.ux. 2.609b.

3 flood

flood, κατελθόντος αἰφνιδίου τοῦ ῥ. Th. 4.75, cf. Hdt. 8.12; φερομένῳ συναπενεχθῆναι τῷ ῥ. Demad. 15.

II that which is always flowing, changing, ebb and flow

that which is always flowing or changing, τὸ τῆς τύχης . . ῥ. μεταπίπτει ταχύ the ebb and flow of fortune, Men. Georg.Fr. 2.

III humour, discharge, flux, rheum

Medic., humour or discharge from the body, flux, rheum, διὰ τῶν ῥινῶν Hp. VM 18; 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.

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