ποτᾰμός, ὁ,
river, stream, Ὠκεανοῖο ἐξ οὗ περ πάντες π. [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 21.196 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; π. ἁλιμυρήεις, ἀργυροδίνης, βαθυδίνης, βαθύρροος, δεινός, διιπετής, δινήεις, ἐΰρροος, ἐρίδουπος, εὐρὺ ῥέων, θεῖος, ἱερός, ἴφθιμος, καλλίροος, κελάδων, λάβρος, πλήθων, χειμάρροος, ὠκύροος, [[ 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 5.460, 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 21.8, 212, 8, 25, 17.263, 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 11.242, 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 21.130, 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 10.515 (_plural_), 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 21.304, 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 11.238, 10.351 (_plural_), 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 17.749 (_plural_), 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 5.441, 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 18.576, 21.270, 5.87, 87, 598 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; νυκτὸς π., of the rivers of hell, [[ 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “Fragmenta.” 130.9: proverbial, ἄνω ποταμῶν,] Refs 5th c.BC+] of extraordinary events, [[ 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Fragmenta - American Journal of Philology” 335, etc. (in full, ἄνω π. ἱερῶν χωροῦσι παγαί 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Medea” 410 (Lyric poetry)); π. οὐκ ἔστιν ἐμβῆναι δὶς τῷ αὐτῷ 1st c.AD(?): Heraclitus 91 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; π. θαλάσσῃ ἐρίζεις, of unequal combats, [[ 10th c.AD: Suidas Legal icographus, etc. ] Refs]
__2 metaphorically, rivers of fire or lava, [[ 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “P.” 1.22, 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Prometheus Vinctus” 370: Comedy texts, ζωμοῦ π. κρέα θερμὰ κυλίνδων 5th c.BC: Teleclides Comicus 1.8, compare 5th c.BC: Pherecrates Comicus 108.3; also π. πραγμάτων 3rd c.AD: Porphyrius Tyrius Philosophus “ad Marcellam - Porphyrii Opuscula” 5. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]