αὐχήν
auchen
neck, throat
Appears 69 times across Aristotle's works.
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Dictionary (LSJ)
αὐχήν, ένος, ὁ, A. neck, throat, of men and beasts, Il. 7.12, Op. 815, HA 493a5, PA 691b29: rarely, gullet, Th. 350: in pl., of one neck, Fr. 659.4, L. 137, AP 5.27 (). 2. metaph., τὸν αὐ. ἱστάναι to be high-spirited, VA 7.23; αὐχένα ὑψηλὸν ἀποθέσθαι Vett. Val.261.16. II. metaph., any narrow band or connexion (like a neck): 1. neck of land, isthmus, 1.72,6.37, An. 6.4.3. 2. narrow sea, strait, of the Bosporus, 4.85, 118; αὐ. πόντου, of the Hellespont, Pers. 72 (lyr.); of the point at which the Danube spreads from a single stream into several branches, 4.89. 3. mountain-pass, defile, 7.223. 4. neck of the thigh-bone, Art. 55; cervix uteri, Steril. 230, 2.222 (but, pars vaginalis, UP 14.3); root of the tongue, Onom. 57. 5. handle of the steering-paddle in a ship, 1.90: in pl., 3.11.14, 5.28. 6. an architectural member, αὐχένες δρύινοι SIG 2587.308. (Cf. αὔφην; ἄμφην 30.28.)
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