A.“-ρρεύσω” HeroSpir.1.9: aor. 1 Act. “-ερρευσα” Procop.Aed.4.6: pf. “-έρρευκα” Gal. ap. Orib.51.36.17: aor. 2 Pass. “-ερρύην” Hp.Nat.Hom.1, etc.:—flow upon the surface, float, καθύπερθεν “ἐπιρρέει ἠΰτ᾽ ἔλαιον” Il.2.754.
2.. flow in besides, keep on flowing, “ποταμοῖσι . . ἐμβαίνουσιν . . ἕτερα ὕδατα ἐπιρρεῖ” Heraclit.12; ἐπιρρεόντων ποταμῶν (into the sea), Ar.Nu.1294; “χολὴ πλείων ἐπιρρέουσα” Pl.Ti.85e; ἄνωθεν ἐπὶ τὰς ἀρούρας ib.22e: metaph. of large bodies of men, stream on, “ἐπέρρεον ἔθνεα πεζῶν” Il.11.724; ἐπιρρεόντων τῶν Ἑλλήνων “καὶ γινομένων πλεύνων” Hdt.9.38; “ἐ. ὄχλος Γοργόνων” Pl.Phdr. 229d; of a flood of topics, Id.Tht.177e; “ὄχλος πολὺς ἄμμιν ἐπιρρεῖ” Theoc.15.59; of the ἀπόρροιαι of Democritus, Plu.2.733d: c. inf., τὸ “πλῆθος τῶν εἰπεῖν ἐπιρρεόντων” Isoc.12.95: metaph. also, οὑπιρρέων χρόνος onward-streaming time, i.e. the future, A.Eu.853; ὄλβου ἐπιρρυέντος if wealth accumulates, E.Med.1229; “ἀγαθῶν ἐπιρρεόντων” X. Ap.27; “πολλὴ αὔξη ὅταν ἐ. πόνων” Pl.Lg.788d; τὰ ἐπιρρέοντα the stream of wealth, Aen.Gaz. Thphr.p.27 B.
II.. Pass., to be watered, “ὕδασι” Paus.9.8.6.
