inundation
From LSJ
μηδὲν κοτυλίζειν, ἀλλὰ καταπάττειν χύδην → not to sell by the cupful, but to dole out indiscriminately | not to sell by retail but wholesale
English > Greek (Woodhouse)
subs.
P. κατακλυσμός, ὁ, ἐπίκλυσις, ἡ. There was a retreat of the water but no inundation: P. ἐγένετο . . . κύματος ἐπαναχώρησίς τις οὐ μέντοι ἐπέκλυσέ γε (Thuc. 3, 89).