χολή, ἡ,
gall, bile, [[ 7th c.BC: Archilochus Lyricus 131, 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Choephori” 184, 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Fragmenta” 682, 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 2.49, etc.] Refs 7th c.BC+]; χ. μέλαινα black, i. e. diseased, bile, [[ 5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “ἀφορισμοί” 4.23, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Timaeus” 83c ] Refs 5th c.BC+] (but, ={μελαγχολία}, [[ 4th-3rd c.BC: Menander Comicus “Ἐπιτρέποντες” 459); ξανθὴ χ. 5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “περὶ ἀρχαίης ἰητρικῇς” 19; πυρρά 2nd c.AD: Galenus Medicus 15.658 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; χολὴν ἐμεῖν, βῆξαι, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Nicopho Comicus 12, 3rd c.BC: Herodas Mimographus 3.70 (probable reading): proverbial, πικρῷ πικρὰν κλύζουσι φαρμάκῳ χολήν 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Fragmenta” 854; πικρότερ᾽ αὐτῆς τῆς χ. 2nd c.AD: Alexander Rhetor 16.12 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; χολῇ ἀλείφειν, proverbial of giving one a disgust for a thing, from the custom of mothers putting gall to the nipple when the child was to be weaned, [[ 4th-3rd c.BC: Diphilus Comicus 74. ] Refs 4th c.BC+]
__2 plural χολαί, gall-bladder, [[ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Antigone” 1010 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; called δοχαὶ χολῆς, [[ 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Electra” 828 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; also in singular, [[ 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Prometheus Vinctus” 495; χολὴν τῶν ζῴων τὰ μὲν ἔχει τὰ δ᾽ οὐκ ἔχει 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Historia Animalium” 506a20, compare “PA” 677b11. ] Refs 4th c.BC+]
__3 metaphorically (mostly in Poets) like{χόλος} (which see), bile, gall, i. e. bitter anger, wrath, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Pax” 66; ἢ γυναιξὶν οὐκ οἴει χολὴν ἐνεῖνα; [prev. author] “Lys.” 465; οὐδεὶς χολὴν οὐδ᾽ ὀργὴν ἔχων φανήσεται 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 25.27 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; πάνυ ἐστ᾽ ἤδη χ. stirs my bile, makes me sick, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Ranae” 4 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἐπιζεῖ χ. the bile boils over, [[ [prev. author] “Th.” 468; χολὴν κινεῖν [prev. author] “V.” 403, compare 5th c.BC: Pherecrates Comicus 69. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]