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|Definition=ατος, τό, ([[ῥέω]]) <span class="sense"><span class="bld">A</span> [[that which flows]], [[current]], [[stream]], <span class="bibl">A.<span class="title">Pr.</span>139</span> (anap.), <span class="bibl">X.<span class="title">HG</span>4.2.11</span>; <b class="b3">μειλιχίων ποτῶν ῥεῦμα</b> <span class="bibl">S.<span class="title">OC</span>160</span> (lyr.); ἐλαίου ῥεῦμα ἀψοφητὶ ῥέοντος <span class="bibl">Pl.<span class="title">Tht.</span>144b</span>; ῥεῦμα μελισσῶν <span class="title">AP</span>9.404 (Antiphil.): metaph., <b class="b3">ῥεῦμα αὔξης καὶ τροφῆς, ὄψεως</b>, <span class="bibl">Pl.<span class="title">Ti.</span>44b</span>, <span class="bibl">45c</span>; τὸ ἀκούειν γίνεται ῥεύματός τινος φερομένου ἀπὸ τοῦ φωνοῦντος <span class="bibl">Epicur.<span class="title">Ep.</span> 1p.13U.</span> </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">2</span> [[stream]] of a river, <span class="bibl">Hdt.2.20</span>, <span class="bibl">24</span>; ῥεῦμα Διρκαῖον <span class="bibl">E.<span class="title">Supp.</span>637</span>, cf. <span class="bibl"><span class="title">IT</span>401</span> (lyr.); <b class="b3">τὸ τοῦ Νείλου ῥ</b>. <span class="bibl">Pl. <span class="title">Ti.</span>21e</span>; also, [[eruption of lava]], <span class="bibl">Th.3.116</span>, <span class="bibl">Carc.5.7</span>: metaph., [[stream]] or [[flood]] of [[men]], μεγάλῳ ῥεύματι φωτῶν <span class="bibl">A.<span class="title">Pers.</span> 88</span> (anap.); <b class="b3">ῥεῦμα Περσικοῦ στρατοῦ</b> ib.<span class="bibl">412</span>, cf. <span class="bibl">E.<span class="title">IT</span>1437</span>; <b class="b3">πολλῷ ῥεύματι προσνισσόμενοι</b> <span class="bibl">S.<span class="title">Ant.</span>129</span>(anap.); so ῥεύματα ἐπῶν <span class="bibl">Cratin.186</span>; κλαυθμῶν καὶ ὀδυρμῶν Plu.2.609b. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">3</span> [[flood]], <b class="b3">κατελθόντος αἰφνιδίου τοῦ ῥεύματος</b> <span class="bibl">Th. 4.75</span>, cf. <span class="bibl">Hdt.8.12</span>; <b class="b3">φερομένῳ συναπενεχθῆναι τῷ ῥεύματι</b> Demad.15. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">II</span> [[that]] which is always [[flowing]] or [[changing]], <b class="b3">τὸ τῆς τύχης . . ῥεῦμα μεταπίπτει ταχύ</b> the [[ebb]] and [[flow]] of [[fortune]], <span class="bibl">Men.<span class="title">Georg.Fr.</span>2</span>. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">III</span> Medic., [[humour]] or [[discharge]] from the [[body]], [[flux]], [[rheum]], διὰ τῶν ῥινῶν <span class="bibl">Hp. <span class="title">VM</span>18</span>; ῥεῦμα εἰς τοὺς πόδας κατεληλύθει <span class="bibl">Luc.<span class="title">Philops.</span>6</span>; ῥεῦμα νοσηματικά <span class="bibl">Arist.<span class="title">Sens.</span>444a13</span>; <b class="b3">στομάχου καὶ κοιλίας ῥεῦμα</b> Dsc.1.83; κατασκῆψαι ῥεῦμα εἰς τὰ νεῦρα <span class="bibl">Paus.6.3.10</span>: abs.,<span class="bibl"><span class="title">POxy.</span>1088.1</span>(i A.D.), <span class="bibl">Plu.<span class="title">Mar.</span>34</span>, etc.</span>