χύδην

A. as if poured out, in floods or heaps: hence,

I. without order or system, promiscuously, indiscriminately, καταπάττειν χ. wholesale (opp. κοτυλίζειν, to sell by retail), Pherecr. 168; χ. βεβλῆσθαι Pl. Phdr. 264b; στεφάνων χ. πεπλεγμένων Alex. 52; πάντα χ. ἔστω AP 10.100 (Antiphan.); τὰ χ. μαθήματα . . ἐν τῇ παιδείᾳ γενόμενα Pl. R. 537c; φορτικῶς καὶ χ. ὅ τι ἂν ἐπέλθῃ λέγουσιν Isoc. 12.24, cf. Ep. 9.5; νομίμων χ. ὡς εἰπεῖν κειμένων Arist. Pol. 1324b5; ἐναλείφειν τοῖς καλλίστοις φαρμάκοις χ. Id. Po. 1450b2.

II. in unfettered language, i.e. in prose, opp. ἐν ποιήμασι, Pl. Lg. 811d; τὰ χ., opp. τὰ μέτρα, Arist. Rh. 1409b7.

III. abundantly, AP 9.316 (Leon.), Hp. Ep. 3; [ἁ] χύδαν . . λύπα overflowing grief, Call. l. c.; spreading, of poison, AP 9.233 (Eryc.).