σταλαγμός
ὦ θάνατε παιάν, μή μ᾽ ἀτιμάσῃς μολεῖν· μόνος γὰρ εἶ σὺ τῶν ἀνηκέστων κακῶν ἰατρός, ἄλγος δ᾽ οὐδὲν ἅπτεται νεκροῦ. → O death, the healer, reject me not, but come! For thou alone art the mediciner of ills incurable, and no pain layeth hold on the dead.
English (LSJ)
ὁ,
A dropping, dripping, from the mouth of horses and hunted animals, A.Th.61, Eu.247, cf.783 (lyr.); φόνου E.Hec.241 (pl.); αἵματος Id.Ion 351,1003 (pl.); of a profuse sweat, Hp.Aph.7.85, cf. Gal.19.140; ὁ σ. κατατρίβει τοὺς λίθους Arist.Ph.253b15; κίονες πεπήγασιν ἀπό τινων σ., of stalactites, Id.Mir.834b32; also σμύρνης S.Fr.370 (pl.): metaph., σ. εἰρήνης the least drop of... Ar.Ach.1033; τύχης σ. Diog.Sinop.2; contemptuously of a little man, Anaxandr.34.3. (σταλαγμούς is unmetrical in Arat.966: σταλαημούς cj. Koechly, cf. σταλεηδόνες.)
