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ῥῠτός

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flowing, fluid, liquid

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What it meant — LSJ

flowing, fluid, liquid

flowing, fluid, liquid, ῥυτᾶς ἐξ ἁλός A. Ag. 1408 (lyr.); ῥ. πόροι (v. πόρος I.3) Id. Eu. 452; ῥυτῶν ὑδάτων λουτρά S. OC 1598; παγά E. Hipp. 123 (lyr.); ὑγρὸν ῥ., opp. πακτόν, Ti.Locr. 99c; [ὕδατα] ῥ. distd. fr. στάσιμα, Arist. Mete. 353b19, cf. Thphr. CP 2.6.3; distd. fr. φρεατιαῖα, Plu. Frig. 2.954c.

II drinking-cup, horn, funnel, rhytium

ῥῠτόν, τό, drinking-cup or horn, running to a point, where was a small hole, through which the wine ran in a thin stream, S. Fr. 772, D. 21.158, PPetr. 3p.113 (iii B.C.), Inscr.Délos 442B 27 (ii B.C.), Plb. 14.11.2, Plu. Alex. 67; made in the form of an elephant, a trireme, the god Βησᾶς, Damox. 1.2, Epin. 2.1, Hedyl. ap. Ath. 11.497d; funnel used as a filter, Ps.-Democr. ap. Zos. Alch. p.155B.; v. κρουνίζω:—Dim. ῥύτιον [ῠ], τό, only in Lat. form rhytium, Mart. 2.35.2.

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