δρόσος, ἡ,
dew, [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 2.68, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Timaeus” 59e: _plural_, 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Agamemnon” 336, 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Ajax” 1208 (Lyric poetry), etc. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__2 in Poets, pure water, ποντία δ. [[ 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Eumenides” 904 ] Refs 4th c.BC+]; δρόσῳ ἐναλίᾳ, θαλασσίᾳ, [[ 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Iphigenia Taurica” 255, 1192; ποταμίᾳ δ. [prev. author] “Hipp.” 127 (Lyric poetry)] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ποταμίαισι δρόσοις[[ [prev. work] 78; ἐπὶ κρηναίαισι δρόσοις [prev. author] “IA” 182 (Lyric poetry)] Refs]; δρόσος alone, Ἀχελῴου δ. [[ [prev. author] “Andr.” 167; καθαραῖς δρόσοις [prev. author] “Ion” 96 (Lyric poetry); ἐκ ποταμῶν δρόσον ἄρατε 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Ranae” 1339. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__3 of other liquids, δ. ἀμπέλου [[ 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “O.” 7.2; δ. φοινία 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Agamemnon” 1390, etc.; ἀπόπτυστος 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Equites” 1285 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; of oil, [[“Anthologia Graeca” 5.3 (1st c.BC: Philodemus Gadarensis Epigrammaticus) ] Refs 1st c.BC+]; of honey, [[ 2nd-3rd c.AD: Philostratus Sophista “Heroicus” 19.19; δ. καλάμου ] Refs 2nd c.AD+]sugar, [[ 2nd c.AD: Antyllus Medicus cited in 4th c.AD: Oribasius Medicus 10.27.18: _metaphorically_, δρόσος κώμων 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “P.” 5.99. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__4 down on the cheek, δ. καὶ χνοῦς [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Nubes” 978, compare 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus 2.79d. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]