φρέ-αρ,
epigram φρεῖαρ [[ 2nd c.BC: Nicander Epicus “Theriaca” 486, τό, _genitive_ φρέᾱτος (see. entry near the end)] Refs 2nd c.BC+], contraction φρητός [[ “IGRom.” 1.1167 C 6 (Egypt, 1st c.AD)] Refs 1st c.AD+], Hdn.Gr.1.409; Epic dialect dative φρέᾰτι [[ “hymnus ad Cererem” 99 (assuming variant), φρητί 3rd c.BC: Callimachus Epicus “Hymnus in Cererem” 15 ] Refs 3rd c.BC+]; plural φρέᾱτα, also φρῆτα [[ “PCair.Zen.” 499.12 (3rd c.BC)] Refs 3rd c.BC+]; Epic dialect plural φρείᾰτα (see. below):—an artificial well (thus distinguished from κρήνη,[[compare 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 4.120, 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 14.30 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; but φ. ἀσφάλτον naphtha-spring, [[ LXX.Gen.14.10, compare 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 6.119), πᾶσαι κρῆναι καὶ φρείατα μακρὰ νάουσιν 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 21.197 ] LXX+8th c.BC+]; the stem φρεατ - first in [[ “hymnus ad Cererem” [prev. cited] ] Refs]
__2 later, tank, cistern, reservoir, [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.68, 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 2.48, 49, “PHal.” 1.98 (3rd c.BC)] Refs 5th c.BC+], etc.; εἰς φ. καταβαίνειν καὶ κολυμβᾶν [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Laches” 193c, compare “Prt.” 350a; φ. ὀρώρυκται 2nd c.AD: Sextus Empiricus Philosophus “adversus Mathematicos” 8.129; ποιητὰ φ., see at {ποιητός} 1 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]: generally, pit, φ. διαφθορᾶς [[ LXX.Psa.54(55).24. ] LXX]
__2.b perhaps oil-jar, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Plutus” 810. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__3 metaphorically, εἰς φρέατά τε καὶ πᾶσαν ἀπορίαν ἐμπίπτων [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Theaetetus” 174c; ἐν φρέατι συσχόμενος [prev. work] 165b ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἡ περὶ τὸ φ. ὄρχησις, proverbial of persons 'on the brink of a volcano', [[ 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus 2.68b] Refs 1st c.AD+]; λύκος περὶ φ. χορεύει proverbial cited in [[ 5th c.AD(?): Hesychius Legal icographus, 9th c.AD: Photius Legal icographus, etc. ] Refs 5th c.AD+]; πίνειν ἐξ ἀργυροῦ φρέατος, i.e. a large wine-cup, [[ 2nd c.AD: Athenaeus Epigrammaticus 5.192a, cf. Chamaeleon cited in [same work] 11.461c ] Refs 2nd c.AD+]. [Attic dialect genitive φρέᾱτος [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Ecclesiazusae” 1004, “fragment” 295, 5th c.BC: Strattis Comicus 57 (troch.), 2nd c.AD: Alexander Rhetor 179, 4th-3rd c.BC: Apollodorus Gelous Comicus 1.] (Orig. frhvṛ,] Refs 5th c.BC+] genitive frhvṇτος, cf. Armenian albiur 'well', Goth. and O[[ 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus ] Refs 5th c.BC+] brunna 'stream, burn', Latin ferveo, defrutum.)