ῥῑπ-ή, ἡ,
(ῥίπτω) poet. Noun, swing or force with which anything is thrown, ὅσση δ᾽ αἰγανέης ῥιπὴ.. τέτυκται as far as is the flight of a javelin, [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 16.589; λᾶος ὑπὸ ῥιπῆς 12.462, 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 8.192 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; πέτριναι ῥ. [[ 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Helena” 1123 (Lyric poetry)] Refs 5th c.BC+]; βελέων ῥ. [[ 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “N.” 1.68 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ὑπὸ ῥιπῆς.. Βορέαο the sweep or rush of the N. wind, [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 15.171, 19.358, compare 5th c.BC: Bacchylides Lyricus 5.46; κυμάτων ῥιπαὶ ἀνέμων τε 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “P.” 4.195, compare “Parth.” 2.20, “fragment” 88.2; ῥ. ἀνέμων [prev. author] “P.” 9.48, 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Antigone” 137 ] Refs 8th c.BC+] (Lyric poetry, here metaphorically of gusts of passion, compare [[ 930)] Refs]; ῥ. Διόθεν τεύχουσα φόβον storm, [[ 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Prometheus Vinctus” 1089 (_anapaest meter_), compare 3rd c.BC: Apollonius Rhodius Epicus 1.1016 ] Refs 4th c.BC+]; ῥ. πυρός rush of fire, [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 21.12; ἀνδρός 8.355; ἀθανάτων 8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus “Theogonia” 681, 849 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; κεραυνῶν, χαλάζης, [[ 2nd-3rd c.AD: Oppianus Anazarbensis Epicus “Halieutica - Poetae Bucolici et Didactici” 3.21, 4th c.AD(?): Quintus Smyrnaeus Epicus 14.77 ] Refs 2nd c.AD+]; ὑπὸ ῥιπῇς Ἀφροδίτης, of love, [[ 2nd-3rd c.AD: Oppianus Anazarbensis Epicus “Halieutica - Poetae Bucolici et Didactici” 4.141 ] Refs 2nd c.AD+]; νυχιᾶν (ἐννυχιᾶν Lachm.) ἀπὸ ῥιπᾶν from the night storms, i.e. from the “North”, the land of darkness and storms, [[ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Coloneus” 1248 (Lyric poetry, but Scholia understands Ῥιπᾶν, see at {Ῥῖπαι}). ] Refs 5th c.BC+]