distillation
From LSJ
ἐς δὲ τὰ ἔσχατα νουσήματα αἱ ἔσχαται θεραπεῖαι ἐς ἀκριβείην, κράτισται → for extreme diseases, extreme methods of cure, as to restriction, are most suitable (Corpus Hippocraticum, Aphorisms 1.6.2)
English > Greek (Woodhouse)
substantive
what is distilled: V. σταγών, ἡ, στάγμα, τό, στάλαγμα, τό; see drop, exudation.
the flesh fell from her bones like the distillation of a pine: V. σάρκες δ' ἀπ' ὀστέων ὥστε πεύκινον δάκρυ… ἀπέρρεον (Euripides, Medea 1200).
