στᾰγών, όνος, ἡ,
(στάζω) drop, κροκοβαφὴς σ., of blood, [[ 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Agamemnon” 1122 (Lyric poetry), compare “Ch.” 400 (_anapaest meter_); φόνου 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Tyrannus” 1278, compare 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Bacchae” 767 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ὡς ἐκ πέτρας ὑγρὰ ῥέουσα σταγών, of water, [[ [prev. author] “Supp.” 81 (Lyric poetry); σ. ἀποπίπτουσιν 5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “περὶ φυσῶν” 8 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; δίψιοι σ., of tears, [[ 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Choephori” 186, compare “Ag.” 888 ] Refs 4th c.BC+]; οἴνου χλωραὶ σ. [[ 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Cyclops” 67 (Lyric poetry)] Refs 5th c.BC+]; Λεσβία σ., of wine, [[ 4th c.BC: Ephippus Comicus 29; τῆς.. ἀπὸ Λέσβου.. σταγόνος 4th c.BC: Antiphanes Comicus 174.5; σ. σπονδῖτις “Anthologia Graeca” 6.190 (1st c.AD: Gaetulicus, Cn. Lentulus Epigrammaticus)] Refs 4th c.BC+]; σ. μαζῶν, of milk,[[ [prev. work] 7.552 (6th c.AD: Agathias Historicus et Epigrammaticus); σ. πίσσης 1st c.BC-1st c.AD: Strabo Geographus 16.2.44 ] Refs 1st c.BC+]; σ. τοῦ κόσμου, the sea, [[ 2nd c.AD: Marcus Antoninus Imperator 6.36; ψυχραῖσιν σταγόνεσσι ] Refs 2nd c.AD+]with dew-drops, [[ Inscriptiones Graecae 14.1942 ] Refs]; σταγόσι κατέστικται is covered with spots, bespeckled, [[ 2nd-3rd c.AD: Aelianus “De Natura Animalium - Ar.Byzantine Epit.” 12.24 ] Refs 2nd c.AD+]; κατὰ σταγόνα drop by drop, [[ 2nd c.AD: Sextus Empiricus Philosophus “adversus Mathematicos” 7.90 (irregular _nominative_ _plural_ στάγες as if from στάξ, 3rd c.BC: Apollonius Rhodius Epicus 4.626). ] Refs 3rd c.BC+]
__II a metal,= ὀρείχαλκος or ἄσπρον χάλκωμα, [[ 5th-4th c.BC: Timaeus Locrus Philosophus 99c, see Scholia (p.22 ed. Gelder). ] Refs 5th c.BC+]