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ἀπο-ρρώξ , ῶγος, ὁ, ἡ, (ἀπορρήγνυμι)
A.broken off, abrupt, sheer, precipitous, “ἀκταί” Od.13.98; “πέτρα” X.An.6.4.3, cf. Arist.HA611a21, Call.Lav.Pall.41.
2. Subst., cliff, precipice, Plb.7.6.3, etc.; “ἀκμή” AP7.693 (Apollonid.); abyss, J.BJ1.21.3.
II. fem. Subst., piece broken off, Κώκυτός θ᾽ ὃς δὴ Στυγὸς ὕδατός ἐστιν ἀ. branch of the Styx, Od.10.514, cf. Il. 2.755; ἀλλὰ τόδ᾽ ἀμβροσίης καὶ νέκταρός ἐστιν ἀ. is an efflux, a distillation of nectar (“ἀπόσταγμα” Hsch.), Od.9.359; ἀ. Ἐρινύων limb of the Furies, Ar.Lys.811 (lyr.); ἡ δὲ προφητείη δίης φρενός ἐστιν ἀ. Orac. ap. Luc.Alex.40; μελέων ὀλίγη τις ἀ. some small portion of melody, AP7.571 (Leont.); ἀ. δραχμαίη portion of a drachm's weight, Nic.Th.518; “ἀπορρῶγες σπλάγχνου” Aret.SD1.10; ἀπορρὼξ τῆς πόλεως, of Samos, Demad. ap. Ath.3.99d; “μουνογενής τις ἀ. φύλου ἄνωθεν Χαλδαίων” Orph.Fr.247.23.
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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