εὐρώεις

euroeis

mouldy, dank

Appears 4 times across Homer's epics.

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Odyssey 3
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Book 10 1
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10512
Book 23 1
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23322
Book 24 1
Chapter ?

2410
Iliad 1
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Book 20 1
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2065

Dictionary (LSJ)

εὐρώεις, εσσα, εν, (εὐρώς) A. mouldy, dank, οἰκία . . εὐρώεντα, of the nether world, Il. 20.65; εἰς Ἀΐδεω δόμον εὐρώεντα Od. 10.512,23.322, cf. Hes. Op. 153; πείρατα, of Tartarus, Id. Th. 739; εὐρώεντα κέλευθα Od. 24.10; ὑπὸ ζόφῳ εὐρώεντι h.Cer. 482; τάφον εὐρώεντα S. Aj. 1167 (anap.); later, dank, slimy, ἰλύς, πηλός, Opp. H. 1.781, 2.89. (Expld. as = εὐρέα or πλατέα, ἀναπεπταμένα (cf. εὐρύς) by Apollon. Lex., Hsch., EM 397.57, and possibly so used in late Poets, κόλπος θαλάσσης Opp. H. 5.3, βέρεθρον Nonn. D. 26.107; of a monsterʼs throat, ib.25.476.)

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