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ὕπ-ομβρος

upombros

mixed with rain

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What it meant

ὕπ-ομβρος · hyp-ombros — LSJ

mixed with rain, rainy, impregnated

mixed with rain, θέρος ὕ. a rainy summer, Plu. Cam. 3 (as v.l. for ἔπομβρον) ; ἔαρ Gp. 1.12.21; νύξ EM 450.49; γῆ Philostr. Im. 1.9, cf. Ph. Bel. 82.28, 97.27; impregnated, ἀσφάλτῳ Philostr. VA 1.24.

II drenched

ὕπομβρον ὀστέον Hp. ap. Erot., who explains it as ὑπόνομον καὶ κάθυγρον γεγονός, and ap. Gal. 19.149, who says ὕφυγρον, ὑπόπυον, where the reference is to Hp. VC 15; μόλις ὕπομβρον γενόμενον καὶ κατακλυσθὲν τὸ ἱερεῖον apparently drenched, as t.t. in divination, Plu. Def.orac. 2.438a.

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