Aristotle Greek Lexicon ὀπός

ὀπός

opos

juice

Appears 4 times across Aristotle's works.

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Dictionary (LSJ)

ὀπός, , A. juice, distd. from χυλός, χυμός, in that ὀπός is prop. vegetable juice, the milky juice which is drawn from a plant by tapping it, ὀπὸν . . στάζοντα τομῆς . . κάδοις δέχεται S. Fr. 534 (anap.), cf. Thphr. HP 9.8.1, etc. ; esp. the acid juice of the fig-tree, used as rennet (τάμισος) for curdling milk, Il. 5.902, Emp. 33, Hp. Morb. 4.52, Menestor ap.Thphr. HP 1.2.3, Arist. Mete. 384a21,389b10, GA 737a14 ; generally, acid juice, Pl. Ti. 60b ; βλέπειν ὀπόν Ar. Pax 1184 : in pl., Antiph. 88.4, cj. in Anaxandr. 41.59 (anap.); cf. ὀπίας, ὀποειδής, 2. metaph., ὀπὸς ἥβης the juicy freshness of youth, opp. ῥυτίς, AP 5.257 (Paul. Sil.). II. ὀποῦ καρπός, = σιλφίου σπέρμα, Hp. ap. Gal. 19.126 ; and so prob. in Ar. Ec. 404, Pl. 719 ; but ὀπὸς σιλφίου silphium juice, Hp. Acut. 23, cf. 37, Acut.(Sp.)48, Thphr. HP 6.3.2 ; so ὀπός alone, Gal. 12.90. III. gravy, Ath. 9.402c. (Perh. cf. Lith. sakaĩ (pl.) ‘resin’, Slav. sokǔ ‘sap’.)

Key passages & sense analysis (Bonitz)

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