ἰχώρ: Difference between revisions

|Definition=[<b class="b3">ῑ], ῶρος, ὁ</b>, <span class="sense"><p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">A</span> [[ichor]], [[the juice]], not blood, that flows in the veins of gods, <span class="bibl">Il.5.340</span>,etc.: Ep.acc. <b class="b3">ἰχῶ</b> ib.<span class="bibl">416</span>: in pl., of the Giants, <span class="bibl">Str. 6.3.5</span>; later simply, [[blood]], <span class="bibl">A.<span class="title">Ag.</span>1480</span> (anap.). </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">II</span> <b class="b2">the watery part</b> of animal juices, [[serum]] (cf. Gal.15.345), of the blood, <span class="bibl">Hp.<span class="title">Cord.</span> 11</span>, <span class="bibl">Pl.<span class="title">Ti.</span>83c</span>, <span class="bibl">Arist.<span class="title">HA</span>521b2</span> (also in pl., v.l. in <span class="bibl">521a18</span>), <span class="bibl"><span class="title">PA</span>651a18</span>; of gall, χολώδεας ἰχῶρας Hp.<span class="title">Acut.</span> (<span class="title">Sp.</span>) <span class="bibl">1</span>; of milk, [[whey]], <span class="bibl">Arist. <span class="title">HA</span>521b27</span>; [[gravy]] of underdone meat, <span class="bibl">Archestr.<span class="title">Fr.</span>57.6</span>; [[juice]] of burning logs, Dsc.1.119, <span class="title">Eup.</span>1.120. </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">2</span> [[serous]] or <b class="b2">sero-purulent discharge</b>, <span class="bibl">Hp.<span class="title">VC</span>19</span>, <span class="bibl">Arist.<span class="title">HA</span>630a6</span> (pl.), Gal.10.184, etc.; <b class="b3">ἰχῶρες ὑδαρεῖς ὕπωχροι</b>, from women in childbirth, <span class="bibl">Arist.<span class="title">HA</span>586b32</span>; of the [[putrefied blood]] of a viper, <span class="bibl">Id.<span class="title">Mir.</span>845a8</span>; of [[naphtha]] (prob.), regarded in legend as due to the putrefaction of Giants' corpses, ib.<span class="bibl">838a29</span>.</span>