[Meaning] the flood of the sea.[1] Also [sc. attested is] plhmmuri/s ["flood-tide"], [meaning] disturbance.[2]
*plh/mh: h( plhmmu/ra th=s qala/sshs. kai\ *plhmmuri/s, h( taraxh/.
cf.
Photius pi947 Theodoridis s.v.
plhmmu/ra, as well as other lexica, and a scholion on Apollonius Rhodius,
Argonautica 1.757. (On preferring the spelling of
plhmu/ra and
plhmuri/s with single mu, see LSJ s.v.
plhmuri/s.)
[1] Attested in historians beginning with
Polybius.
[2] Mainly poetic: attested in
Homer (
Odyssey 9.486),
Herodotus,
Bacchylides, tragedy, etc.; also in medical writers, referring to redundance or congestion of fluids in the body.
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