ὕδωρ [ῠ,
see near the end], τό, genitive ὕδατος: an Epic dialect dative ὕδει in [[ 8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus “Opera et Dies” 61, 6th c.BC: Theognis Elegiacus 961 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; later nominative ὕδος [[ 3rd c.BC: Callimachus Epicus “Fragmenta” 475 ] Refs 3rd c.BC+]; Boeotian dialect οὕδωρ probably in [[ “IG” 7.3169 (Orchom.)] Refs]:—water, of any kind, but in [[ 8th c.BC: Homerus Epicus ] Refs 8th c.BC+] rarely of seawater without an epithet, ἄνεμός τε καὶ ὕ. [[ 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 3.300, 7.277; but ἁλμυρὸν ὕ. 9.227, +others, compare 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 4.26 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; of rivers, ὕ. Αἰσήποιο, Στυγός, [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 2.825, 8.369, +others] Refs 8th c.BC+]; so in Lyric poetry and Trag., ὕ, Ἀσώπιον [[ 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “N.” 3.3; ὕ. τὸ Νείλου 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Supplices” 561 (Lyric poetry)] Refs 5th c.BC+]: frequently in plural (but only once in [[ 8th c.BC: Homerus Epicus, ὕδατ᾽ ἀενάοντα 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 13.109), Καφίσια ὕδατα] Refs 8th c.BC+] the waters of Cephisus, [[ 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “O.” 14.1; ῥυτῶν ὑδάτων 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Coloneus” 1599; ὕδασιν τοίς Ἀχελῴου [prev. author] “fragment” 271 (_anapaest meter_)] Refs 5th c.BC+]: spring-water, drinking-water, οἶνον ἔμισγον καὶ ὕ. [[ 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 1.110; ἀφυσσάμεθ᾽ ὕδωρ 9.85; ὕδατα καὶ.. δῖτοι 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 404a; πότιμον ὕ. 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Historia Graeca (Hellenica)” 3.2.19 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; ὕ. πίνων a water-drinker, [[ 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 6.30, compare 19.46, 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Equites” 349; ὕ. δὲ πίνων οὐδὲν ἂν τέκοι σοφόν 5th c.BC: Cratinus Comicus 199, compare 4th c.BC: Aristopho Comicus 10.3, 3rd c.BC: Bato Comicus 2.9, +others: ὕδωρ κατὰ χειρός] Refs 5th c.BC+] water for washing the hands, see at {χεί; φέρτε χερσὶν ὕ}. [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 9.171; ὕ. ἐπὶ χεῖρας ἔχευαν 3.270, 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 1.146, +others; λοέσσας ὕδατι λευκῷ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 23.282:—on γῆν καὶ ὕδωρ αἰτεῖν and διδόναι, see at {γῆ} 1.2b:] Refs 8th c.BC+] —a curse was invoked upon those who refused fire (i.e. the right to borrow burning embers) or water or to direct a traveller on his way, [[ 4th-3rd c.BC: Diphilus Comicus 62, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Oeconomicus” 2.15:—proverbial, ὅρκους ἐγὼ γυναικὸς εἰς ὕ. γράφω 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Fragmenta” 811, compare 4th-3rd c.BC: Menander Comicus “Μονόστιχοι - Fragmenta Comicorum Graecorum” 25; ἐν ὕδατι γράφειν 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Phaedrus” 276c ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ὅταν τὸ ὕδωρ πνίγῃ, τί δεῖ ἐπιπίνει; if water chokes, what more can be done ? of a desperate case, [[ 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Ethica Nicomachea” 1146a35, compare ἐπιρροφέω 1. ] Refs 4th c.BC+]