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|mdlsjtxt=<br /><b class="num">I.</b> to [[flow]], run, [[stream]], [[gush]], Hom., etc.:—with dat. of that [[which]] flows, πηγὴ ῥέει ὕδατι the [[fountain]] runs with [[water]], Il.; ῥέεν αἵματι [[γαῖα]] Il.; ῥεῖ γάλακτι [[πέδον]] Eur.; of a [[river]], [[μέγας]] ῥεῖ runs with [[full]] [[stream]], Hdt.; so, πολὺς ῥεῖ, metaph. of men, Aesch.; of a [[river]], also, ῥ. ἀπὸ χιόνος to [[derive]] its [[stream]] from [[melted]] [[snow]], Hdt.:—[[proverb]]., ἄνω ῥέειν to [[flow]] [[backwards]], of impossibilities, Eur.<br /><b class="num">2.</b> metaph. of things, ἐκ [[χειρῶν]] βέλεα [[ῥέον]] from [[their]] hands rained darts, Il.; of a [[flow]] of words, ἀπὸ γλώσσης μέλιτος [[γλυκίων]] ῥέεν [[αὐδή]] Il.; absol., of the [[tongue]], to run glibly, Aesch. (cf. Hor., [[salso]] multoque fluenti): of words or sentiments, to be [[current]], Soph.<br /><b class="num">3.</b> to [[fall]], [[drop]] off, e. g. of [[hair]], Od., Theocr.: then, [[generally]], to [[flow]] or [[melt]] [[away]], [[perish]], Soph., Plat.<br /><b class="num">4.</b> of persons, ῥ. ἐπί or εἴς τι to be inclined, given to a [[thing]], Isocr., Plat.<br /><b class="num">II.</b> [[very]] [[rarely]] [[trans]]. to let [[flow]], [[pour]], [[ἔρρει]] [[χοάς]] Eur.<br /><b class="num">2.</b> c. acc. cogn., ῥείτω [[γάλα]], [[μέλι]] let the [[land]] run [[milk]], [[honey]], Theocr.; [[οἶνον]] ῥέων Luc.

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