ἰχώρ: Difference between revisions

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