εὔριπος: Difference between revisions

|Definition=ὁ, <span class="sense"><span class="bld">A</span> [[any strait]] or [[narrow sea]], [[where the flux and reflux is violent]], <span class="bibl">X.<span class="title">HG</span>1.6.22</span>, <span class="bibl">Arist.<span class="title">HA</span>544a21</span>, <span class="bibl">548a9</span>, <span class="bibl"><span class="title">Mu.</span>396a25</span>; esp. [[the strait which separates Euboea from Boeotia]], h.Ap.222, <span class="bibl">Hdt.5.77</span>, etc., cf. <span class="bibl">Str.9.2.8</span>: [[proverb|prov.]] of <b class="b2">an unstable, weak-minded</b> person (cf. <span class="bibl">Poll.6.121</span>), πλείους τραπόμενος τροπὰς τοῦ Εὐρίπου <span class="bibl">Aeschin.3.90</span>; μεταρρεῖ ὥσπερ Εὔριπος <span class="bibl">Arist.<span class="title">EN</span>1167b7</span>; ἄστατα καὶ ἀβέβαια Εὐρίπου τρόπον Hipparch. ap. Stob.4.44.81; Εὔριποι γενόμενοι <span class="bibl">Lib.<span class="title">Ep.</span>907</span>. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">II</span> generally, [[canal]], [[ditch]], etc., <span class="title">SIG</span>799.7 (Cyzicus, i A.D.), <span class="bibl">Babr.120.2</span>, <span class="title">AP</span>14.135.2 (Metrod.), <span class="bibl">D.H.3.68</span>. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">2</span> the <span class="title">Spina</span> in the Circus, <span class="bibl">Lyd.<span class="title">Mens.</span>1.12</span>. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">III</span> [[ventilator]], [[fan]], ἐξ εὐρίπου τινὸς αὔραν εἰσπνεῖν ἐπιτεχνώμενον Gal.10.649. ([[εὖ]], [[ῥιπή]], [[ῥιπίζω]].)</span>