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|Definition=ατος, τό, <span class="sense"><span class="bld">A</span> [[standing water]], [[pond]], [[marsh]], [[swamp]], <span class="bibl">Ar.<span class="title">Av.</span> 1593</span>, <span class="bibl">Pl.<span class="title">Phd.</span>109b</span>, <span class="bibl">X.<span class="title">Oec.</span>20.11</span>, <span class="bibl">Men.<span class="title">Epit.</span>532</span>, <span class="bibl">Thphr.<span class="title">HP</span>1.4.2</span>: pl., [[low lands subject to inundation]], [[water-meads]], <span class="bibl">Hdt.2.93</span>, <span class="bibl">Thphr. <span class="title">Fr.</span>174.1</span>, Gal.6.709, 15.121, <span class="bibl">Jul.<span class="title">Mis.</span>358a</span>; [[mud at the edge of a riverbank]], <span class="bibl">Ael.<span class="title">VH</span>12.46</span>. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">II</span> [[mud used as mortar]], τέλματι χρεώμενοι ἀσφάλτῳ <span class="bibl">Hdt.1.179</span>; cf. [[τελμίς]]. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">2</span> [[space pointed with mortar]], between the courses of masonry, <span class="bibl">Procop.<span class="title">Aed.</span>2.1</span>.</span>