λουτρόν, τό,
in [[ 8th c.BC: Homerus Epicus ] Refs 8th c.BC+] always λοετρόν, but contraction form in [[ “hymnus ad Cererem” 50, 8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus “Opera et Dies” 753 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; Doric dialect λωτρόν, [[ 5th c.AD(?): Hesychius Legal icographus ] Refs 5th c.AD+]: (λούω):— bath, bathing-place, [[ 8th c.BC: Homerus Epicus, always in _plural_, θερμὰ λοετρά] Refs 8th c.BC+] hot bath, [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 22.444, +others; later θερμὰ λουτρά 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Choephori” 670, 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Trachiniae” 634 (Lyric poetry), CratesCom. 15, etc.; θερμὰ Νυμφᾶν λουτρά 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “O.” 12.19; also called Ἡράκλεια λουτρά 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Nubes” 1051; λοετρὰ Ὠκεανοῖο 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 18.489, 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 5.275 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; σίτοισι καὶ λουτροῖσι in matters of eating and washing, [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 6.52; λουτρῷ χρωμένους 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus 2.1109b: _sing._ first in 8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus [same place]; τραπέσθαι πρὸς τὸ λ. 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Phaedo” 115a, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Oeconomicus” 9.7 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]: in plural, bathing-establishment, τὰ δημόσια λ. [[ “POxy.” 1252 B 22 (3rd c.AD), etc. ] Refs 3rd c.AD+]
__2 water for bathing or washing, ὑδάτων ἐνεγκεῖν λουτρά [[ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Coloneus” 1599 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἐν λουτροῖς while bathing, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 7.5.59 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; λοῦσαί τινα λουτρόν give one a bath, wash one with water, [[ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Antigone” 1201, 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Lysistrata” 469; λουτρὸν παρέχειν [prev. work] 377 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; λοῦσθαι λουτρόν bathe, [[ 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Fragmenta - American Journal of Philology” 366 (note); λουτρόν ἐστιν, οὐ πότος 2nd c.AD: Alexander Rhetor 9 ] Refs 4th c.BC+]; νυμφικὰ λουτρά the conveying of water to the bride (compare λουτροφόρος), [[ 2nd c.AD(?): Pollianus Epigrammaticus 3.43; in “NT”, of baptism, NT.Eph.5.26; λ. παλιγγενεσίας NT.Tit.3.5. ] NT+2nd c.AD+]