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ῥύσις [υ^], εως, ἡ, （ῥέω)
A.flow, “ὕδατος” Pl.Lg.944b; εἰς τὸ κοιλότατον ἡ ῥ. Arist.Mete.355b17; opp. ἄμπωτις, ib.366a19; “ἐκ ῥινῶν αἵματος -ιες” Hp.Aph.3.27; κοιλίης ib.2.14; [ἐλαίου], i.e. yield of oil, Thphr. HP4.14.10, PRev.Laws 60.16 (iii B.C.); “φλεβῶν” Arist.PA668a11; of fire, Thphr.Ign.54; shedding, “τριχῶν” Dsc.2.120, Gal.19.431; used for γονόρροια, LXX Le.15.2 sq.
II. course of a river, stream, ποταμὸς ποιεῖται τὴν ῥ. Plb.2.16.6, cf. D.H.1.9, D.S.4.35, Str.6.2.4.
III. Math., [στιγμῆς] ῥύσιν φασὶν εἶναι οἱ γεωμέτραι τὴν γραμμήν (cf. “ῥυΐσκομαι, ῥέω” 1.5b) Iamb. in Nic.p.57 P., cf. Plot.3.7.3, Procl. in Euc.p.97 F.; οἷον ἄστρου ῥ. Arist.Mu.395b8.
Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. A Greek-English Lexicon. revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones. with the assistance of. Roderick McKenzie. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1940.

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  • Cross-references in general dictionaries from this page (8):
    • Old Testament, Leviticus, 15.2
    • Plato, Laws, 944b
    • Strabo, Geography, 6.2.4
    • Polybius, Histories, 2.16.6
    • Hippocrates, Aphorismi, 2.14
    • Hippocrates, Aphorismi, 3.27
    • Diodorus, Historical Library, 4.35
    • Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, 1.9
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