ἰχώρ [ῑ], ῶρος, ὁ,
ichor, the juice, not blood, that flows in the veins of gods, [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 5.340,etc.: _Epic dialect_ _accusative_ ἰχῶ [prev. work] 416 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]: in plural, of the Giants, [[ 1st c.BC-1st c.AD: Strabo Geographus 6.3.5 ] Refs 1st c.BC+]; later simply, blood, [[ 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Agamemnon” 1480 (_anapaest meter_). ] Refs 4th c.BC+]
__II the watery part of animal juices, serum [[compare (2nd c.AD: Galenus Medicus 15.345), of the blood, 5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “περὶ καρδίης” 11, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Timaeus” 83c, 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Historia Animalium” 521b2 (also in _plural_, variant in 521a18), “PA” 651a18 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; of gall, χολώδεας ἰχῶρας [[ 5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “Acut.” (“Sp.”) ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; of milk, whey, [[ 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Historia Animalium” 521b27 ] Refs 4th c.BC+]; gravy of underdone meat, [[ 4th c.BC: Archestratus Epicus “fragment” 57.6 ] Refs 4th c.BC+]; juice of burning logs, [[ 1st c.AD: Dioscorides (Dioscurides) Medicus 1.119, “Eup.” 1.120. ] Refs 1st c.AD+]
__II.2 serous or sero-purulent discharge, [[ 5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “περὶ τῶν ἐν κεφαλη—ͅ τρωμάτων” 19, 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Historia Animalium” 630a6 (_plural_), 2nd c.AD: Galenus Medicus 10.184, etc.] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἰχῶρες ὑδαρεῖς ὕπωχροι, from women in childbirth, [[ 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Historia Animalium” 586b32 ] Refs 4th c.BC+]; of the putrefied blood of a viper, [[ [prev. author] “Mir.” 845a8 ] Refs]; of naphtha (probably), regarded in legend as due to the putrefaction of Giants' corpses, [[[prev. work] 838a29. ] Refs]