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χυμός

χυμός, juice

χῡμ-ός, ὁ, (χέω) used much like χυλός, though sts. distd. fr. it (v. χυλός).
    • I juice of plants, Hp. Epid. 6.6.3 (cf. Gal. 17 (2).327), Pl. Ti. 60a, 60b (pl.), Arist. HA 554a13 (pl.), 596b17, Thphr. HP 9.1.1, al.
      • 2 animal juices, ‘humours’, Hp. VM 18, Arist. HA 556b22, PA 676a16; juice in a wider sense covering 1.1 and 2, Id. Mete. 380b2 (pl.), 32: freq. in later writers, Gal. 15.62, 16.497, Porph. Abst. 2.45, etc.; ἡμίπεπτοι χ. Gal. 6.258; πέψαι τοὺς χ. ib. 253.
      • 3 χυμός· σίελος, Hsch. (αἱ τῶν χυμῶν κενώσεις include πτύσματα in Gal. 16.644).
    • II flavour, ἅμα τῇ γεύσει ὁ χ. Arist. Ph. 245a9, cf. Mete. 356a13 (pl.), de An. 414b11: but not of the action of causing taste, ἡ τοῦ χ. [ἐνέργεια] ἀνώνυμος ib. 426a15; ἰχθῦν . ., ἔχοντα τοὺς χ. ἐν αὑτῷ Arched. 2.9; opp. ὀσμαί, χρόαι, Plu. QConv. 2.646b (and so interchangeable with χυλός II (q.v.), Diocl. Fr. 138): several varieties distd. by Thphr. CP 6.4.1, cf. Plu. Aet. phys. 2.913b.

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