The corpus record

ῥοή

roe · ἡ

river, stream

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Where it lives

Helen 6 · 6.13/10k
Cratylus 10 · 5.59/10k
Bacchae 4 · 5.32/10k
Phoenissae 3 · 3.11/10k
Electra 2 · 2.65/10k
Persians 1 · 1.96/10k
De Mundo 1 · 1.58/10k
Theogony 1 · 1.45/10k
Trojan Women 1 · 1.41/10k
Antigone 1 · 1.36/10k
Theaetetus 3 · 1.33/10k
Ajax 1 · 1.27/10k

Densest 12 of 19 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant — LSJ

river, stream, the juice, stream, streams of events, tide of affairs

river, stream, freq. in Hom., always in pl., and mostly with gen. added, ἐπʼ Ὠκεανοῖο ῥοάων Il. 3.5; Μαιάνδρου τε ῥοάς 2.869; ποταμοῖο ῥοῇσι Od. 6.216; ὕδατος καλῇσι ῥ. Il. 16.229, cf. Schwyzer 289.107 (Priene, ii B.C.); Ὠκεανοῦ ῥ. Hes. Th. 841; also Σκαμάνδριοι ῥ. S. Aj. 419 (lyr.); τεναγέων ῥ. Pi. N. 3.25; ἀμπέλου ῥ. the juice of the grape, E. Cyc. 123; μέλιτος Id. Ba. 711; αἵματος Id. Supp. 690: rarely in sg., παρʼ Ἰσμηνοῦ ῥοάν Pi. N. 11.36 codd. (but ῥοᾶν is prob.); ἀμπέλου ῥοή E. Ba. 281: i

2 flowing

flowing of sap, Thphr. CP 1.13.5 (pl.).

3 flux

flux, as a philosoph. term, Pl. Tht. 152e, v. Cra. 402a; cf. ῥέω I.5. Cf. ῥόος II, ῥοία I.

In the wild

ῥοαῖς · rhoais Aeschylus, Persians 805–806
ῥοαί · rhoai Aristotle, De Mundo (DIORISIS sentence 105)
ῥοαὶ · rhoai Euripides, Bacchae 402–408
ῥοῆς · rhoēs Euripides, Bacchae 278–283
ῥοαί · rhoai Euripides, Bacchae 710–711
ῥοαῖς · rhoais Euripides, Bacchae 748–750

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Where it came from

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