Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

ῥυτός

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ῥυτός ῥυτή ῥυτόν

Structure: ῥυτ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: R(u/w, e)ru/w

Sense

  1. dragged along, dragged along

Examples

  • τῶν ῥυτῶν ὑδάτων τὰ πετραῖα καὶ ὀρεινὰ ψυχρότατα καὶ τῶν φρεατιαίων τὰ κοιλότατα· (Plutarch, De primo frigido, chapter, section 20 4:2)
  • λέγει δὲ οὕτωσ ι πιεῖν δ’ ἔτι ἁδρότερον ἢ τῶν Ῥοδιάδων ἢ τῶν ῥυτῶν; (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 11, book 11, chapter 96 1:1)
  • Δίφιλοσ δ’ ἐν Εὐνούχῳ ἢ Στρατιώτῃ ἐστὶ δὲ τὸ δρᾶμα διασκευὴ τοῦ Αἱρησιτείχουσ ἔσθ’ ὑποχέασθαι πλείονασ, πιεῖν δ’ ἔτι ἁδρότερον ἢ τῶν Ῥοδιάδων ἢ τῶν ῥυτῶν; (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 11, book 11, chapter 973)
  • καὶ τῶν ῥυτῶν τὰ μέγιστα τῶν ὄντων τρία πίνειν δεήσει τήμερον πρὸσ κλεψύδραν κρουνιζόμενον. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 11, book 11, chapter 97 1:4)
  • τίσ ἂν δῆτά μοι, τίσ ἂν φιλοπόνων ἁλιαδᾶν ἔχων ἀύ̈πνουσ ἄγρασ, ἢ τίσ Ὀλυμπιάδων θεᾶν ἢ ῥυτῶν Βοσπορίων ποταμῶν, τὸν ὠμόθυμον εἴ ποθι πλαζόμενον λεύσσων ἀπύοι; (Sophocles, Ajax, choral, strophe 11)

Synonyms

  1. dragged along

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Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.

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