χυμός

A. like χυλός, though sts. distd. fr. it (v. χυλός).

I. juice of plants, Hp. Epid. 6.6.3 (cf. Gal. 17 (2).327), Pl. Ti. 60a, 60b(pl.), Arist. HA 554a13(pl.), 596b17, Thphr. HP 9.1.1, al.

2. animal juices, 'humours', Hp. VM 18, Arist. HA 556b22, PA 676a16; juice in a wider sense covering 1.1 and 2, Id. Mete. 380b2 (pl.), 32: freq. in later writers, Gal. 15.62, 16.497, Porph. Abst. 2.45, etc.; ἡμίπεπτοι χ. Gal. 6.258; πέψαι τοὺς χ. ib.253.

3. χυμός· σίελος, Hsch. (αἱ τῶν χυμῶν κενώσεις include πτύσματα in Gal. 16.644).

II. flavour, ἅμα τῇ γεύσει ὁ χ. Arist. Ph. 245a9, cf. Mete. 356a13 (pl.), de An. 414b11: but not of the action of causing taste, ἡ τοῦ χ. [ἐνέργεια] ἀνώνυμος ib.426a15; ἰχθῦν . . , ἔχοντα τοὺς χ. ἐν αὑτῷ Arched. 2.9; opp. ὀσμαί, χρόαι, Plu. 2.646b (and so interchangeable with χυλός 11 (q.v.), Diocl.Fr. 138): several varieties distd. by Thphr. CP 6.4.1, cf. Plu. 2.913b.