εὐρώεις

A. mouldy, dank, οἰκία . . εὐρώεντα, of the nether world, Il. 20.65; εἰς Ἀΐδεω δόμον εὐρώεντα Od. 10.512,23.322, cf. Hes. Op. 153; πείρατα, of Tartarus, Id. Th. 739; εὐρώεντα κέλευθα Od. 24.10; ὑπὸ ζόφῳ εὐρώεντι h.Cer. 482; τάφον εὐρώεντα S. Aj. 1167 (anap.); later, dank, slimy, ἰλύς, πηλός, Opp. H. 1.781, 2.89. (Expld. as = εὐρέα or πλατέα, ἀναπεπταμένα (cf. εὐρύς) by Apollon. Lex., Hsch. EM 397.57, and possibly so used in late Poets, κόλπος θαλάσσης Opp. H. 5.3, βέρεθρον Nonn. D. 26.107; of a monster's throat, ib.25.476.)