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ὑδρα^γωγ-ός , όν,
A.bringing water, “σείριος” Plu.2.365f; “ὑ. ἐν συνόδῳ ἡ σελήνη” Porph. ap. Eus.PE3.12: ὑ. φάρμακα purgatives producing watery motions, Gal.11.325.
II. Subst. ὑ., ὁ, water-carrier, Artem.4.74, JHS24.195 (Greek text of Edict.Diocl.7.31, where aquarius).
2. maker or manager of aqueducts, Plu.2.914b; digger of a channel, Man.1.84.
b. aqueduct or irrigation channel, with or without irrigation-machinery, LXX4 Ki.18.17, Si.24.30, PCair.Zen.268.36 (iii B. C.), PMich.Zen.45.23 (iii B. C.), PTeb.50.8, al. (ii B. C.), Wilcken Chr.461.21 (iii A. D.), etc.; ὑ. δαψιλής a copious watercourse, 1Enoch28.3.
3. one who drinks much water, dropsical person, Hp.Epid.7.122.
4. a plant, = νυμφαία, Apul.Herb.68.
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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