ἐρυθρός, ά, όν, [ῠ
by nature, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Acharnenses” 787, +others: hence the later _comparative_ and _superlative_ are perhaps -ώτερος, -ώτατος, as in 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Timaeus” 83b, “Epin.” 987c ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; but the metre requires -ότερος in [[ 4th c.BC: Anaxandrides Comicus 22, 4th c.BC: Dromo Comicus 1, compare 4th-5th c.AD: Choeroboscus Grammaticus “Scholia in Theodosii Canones” 2.76]] Refs 4th c.BC+]:— red, νέκταρ ἐ. [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 19.38, 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 5.93; χαλκός 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 9.365; χρυσὸν ἐ. ἰδεῖν 6th c.BC: Theognis Elegiacus 450 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; κῆρυξ ἐ., a ship painted with vermilion, Oracle texts cited in [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 3.57; -ότερον κόκκον 4th c.BC: Dromo Comicus [same place] ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἐ. πέλανος, of blood, [[ 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Eumenides” 265 (Lyric poetry)] Refs 4th c.BC+]; ἐρυθρά, τά, red pimples, eruption, [[ 5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “περὶ ὑγρῶν χρήσιος” 6 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; but ἐ. διελθόντα red motions, [[ [prev. author] “Coac.” 178. ] Refs]
__2 ἐρυθρά, ἡ, =μελισσόφυλλον, Ps.-[[ 1st c.AD: Dioscorides (Dioscurides) Medicus 3.104 ] Refs 1st c.AD+]; ἐρυθρός, ὁ (i.e. ῥοῠς), fruit of the ῥοῠς βυρσοδεψική, [[ 1st c.AD: Dioscorides (Dioscurides) Medicus 1.108. ] Refs 1st c.AD+]
__3 ἐρυθρόν, τό, w)|ou= yolk, [[ 2nd c.AD: Soranus Medicus 1.124, 4th c.AD: Oribasius Medicus “Synopsis” 5.13. ] Refs 2nd c.AD+]
__II Ἐρυθρὴ θάλασσα in [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus ] Refs 5th c.BC+] the Indian Ocean, in which the Red Sea (Ἀράβιος κόλπος) is sometimes included (of the existence of the Persian Gulf he was ignorant), [[ 1.180, 2.11, 158, 4.42, +others] Refs]; πόντος Ἐ. [[ 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “P.” 4.251 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]—later the Red Sea only, [[ “OGI” 69,186,190, +others] Refs]: also of the Persian Gulf, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 8.6.20, 1st c.BC: Diodorus Siculus Historicus 2.11; “Periplus Maris Rubri [1st c.AD]” probably mentions Zanzibar and China ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; used of remote and unknown places, μόνον οὐκ ἐπὶ τὴν Ἐ. θάλατταν πρεσβείας πέμπειν [[ 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 19.304: really ἡ Ἐρύθρα θάλασσα] Refs 4th c.BC+] sea of Erythras, accusative to [[ 2nd c.BC: Agatharchides Geographus 5 ] Refs 2nd c.BC+]. (Latin rubrofr. *rudhro-, cf. Sanskrit rudhirá-; see at {ἐρεύθω}.)