The corpus record

ὑπο-κλύζω

upokluzo

wash from below

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What it meant

ὑπο-κλύζω · hypo-klyzō — LSJ

wash from below, purge, by a clyster, flush

wash from below, πόντος ὑ. χθονὸς ἕδρανα AP 9.663 (Paul.Sil.); ὑ. τὸ σῶμα purge the body by a clyster, Plu. Sanit. 2.127c, cf. Hp. Morb. 2.40; τὴν κοιλίην Aret. CA 1.2; ὑ. τὴν πόλιν flush it, J. AJ 15.9.6.

II to be submerged, to be flooded

Pass., to be submerged, A.R. 1.533 (s. v. l.): metaph., to be flooded with mischief, Luc. Nigr. 16.

Where it came from

No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission. The etymological dictionaries (Beekes, Chantraine, Frisk) are matched incrementally.

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