εὔριπος

English (LSJ)

ὁ,

   A any strait or narrow sea, where the flux and reflux is violent, X.HG1.6.22, Arist.HA544a21, 548a9, Mu.396a25; esp. the strait which separates Euboea from Boeotia, h.Ap.222, Hdt.5.77, etc., cf. Str.9.2.8: prov. of an unstable, weak-minded person (cf. Poll.6.121), πλείους τραπόμενος τροπὰς τοῦ Εὐρίπου Aeschin.3.90; μεταρρεῖ ὥσπερ Εὔριπος Arist.EN1167b7; ἄστατα καὶ ἀβέβαια Εὐρίπου τρόπον Hipparch. ap. Stob.4.44.81; Εὔριποι γενόμενοι Lib.Ep.907.    II generally, canal, ditch, etc., SIG799.7 (Cyzicus, i A.D.), Babr.120.2, AP14.135.2 (Metrod.), D.H.3.68.    2 the Spina in the Circus, Lyd.Mens.1.12.    III ventilator, fan, ἐξ εὐρίπου τινὸς αὔραν εἰσπνεῖν ἐπιτεχνώμενον Gal.10.649. (εὖ, ῥιπή, ῥιπίζω.)