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πα^λίρ-ροια (also πα^λιρ-οία_ S.Fr.832), Ion. πα^λιρ-οίη , ἡ,
A.flowing back, backwater, “δίνας τινὰς . . ἰσχυρὰς καὶ παλιρροίην” Hdt. 2.28; παλιρροία βυθοῦ, of the tide, S. l.c.; παλιρροίῃ ἐπινήχεται, of Delos, Call.Del.193: in pl., Agathem.5.22.
2. generally, reflux, ἡ π. τῆς ὑγρότητος, in the spleen, Arist.PA670b8; “τοῦ θερμοῦ” Id.Insomn.461a6; “ἐς π. ἰέναι” Aret. CA1.7.
3. metaph., παράδοξος π. τῶν πραγμάτων, of fortune, Plb. 1.82.3; “ἡ ἐπ᾽ ἀμφότερα τὰ μέρη τῆς τύχης π.” D. S.18.59; also of ἀνάμνησις, Ph.1.593.
Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. A Greek-English Lexicon. revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones. with the assistance of. Roderick McKenzie. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1940.

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    • Herodotus, Histories, 2.28
    • Sophocles, Ichneutae, 832
    • Polybius, Histories, 1.82.3
    • Aretaeus, De curatione acutorum morborum libri duo, 1.7
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