dregs

English > Greek (Woodhouse)

substantive

of wine: Ar. τρύξ, ἡ.

sediment: P. ὑποσταθμή, ἡ (Plato).

this man is the cause, who has emptied over me, as it were, the dregs of his own iniquily and crimes: P. αἴτιος δ' οὗτος, ὥσπερ ἑωλοκρασίαν τινά μου τῆς πονηρίας ἑαυτοῦ καὶ τῶν ἀδικημάτων κατασκεδάσας (Dem. 242).

drain to the dregs, v.: Met. (of sorrow, etc.): V. ἀντλεῖν, διαντλεῖν, ἐξαντλεῖν.

the dregs of the people: use Ar. and P. οἱ ἀγοραῖοι.