αὐχμός, ὁ,
drought, [[ 5th c.BC: Empedocles Poeta Philosophus 111.6, 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 2.13, 4.198, 5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “ἀφορισμοί” 3.7: in _plural_, 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 1.23, 5th-6th c.BC: Isocrates Orator 9.14, 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Numa” 13: _metaphorically_, ὥσπερ αὐχμός τις τῆς σοφίας] Refs 5th c.BC+] drought, dearth of.., [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Meno” 70c; so perhaps αὐχμὸς τῶν σκευαρίων 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Plutus” 839. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__2 effects of drought, squalor, μεστὰς αὐχμοῦ τε καὶ κόνεως[[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 614d. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__3 of style, dryness, meagreness, [[ 1st c.BC: Dionysius Halicarnassensis “de Demosthene” 44. ] Refs 1st c.BC+]
__4 thirst, [[ 1st-2nd c.AD: Dio Chrysostomus Sophista 7.152. (Perh. akin to αὖος.) ] Refs 1st c.AD+]