αὐλός
aulos
pipe, flute, clarionet
Appears 40 times across Aristotle's works.
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Dictionary (LSJ)
αὐλός, ὁ, A. pipe, flute, clarionet, Il. 10.13, 18.495, h.Merc. 452; Λύδιος O. 5.19; Ἔλυμος, i.e. Φρύγιος (q. v.), Fr. 398; Λίβυς Alc. 347; αὐ. γυναικήιος, ἀνδρήιος, 1.17; αὐ. ἀνδρεῖοι, παιδικοί, παρθένιοι, 4.176f, 4.81; ὁ παρθένιος αὐ. τοῦ παιδικοῦ ὀξύτερος HA 581b11; διδύμοις αὐλοῖσιν ἀεῖσαι Ep. 5.1; ἐμφυσᾶν εἰς αὐλούς 3.59; αὐ. Ἐνυαλίου, i.e. a trumpet, AP 6.151 (); ὑπʼ αὐλοῦ to the sound of the flute, l. c.; πρὸς τὸν αὐ., ὑπὸ τὸν αὐ., Smp. 6.3, etc.: pl., αὐλοὶ πηκτίδος pipes of the πηκτίς, IG 4.53 (Aegina). 2. hollow tube, pipe, groove, περόνη τέτυκτο αὐλοῖσιν διδύμοισι the buckle was furnished with two pipes or grooves (into which the tongue fitted), Od. 19.227; ἐγκέφαλος παρʼ αὐλὸν ἀνέδραμε spirted up beside the vizard (cf. αὐλῶπις), or beside the socket of the spear-head into which the shaft fitted, Il. 17.297; but in Od. 22.18 αὐλὸς παχύς means the jet of blood through the tube of the nostril; αὐλὸς ἐκ χαλκείου the smithʼs bellows, Art. 47,77, cf. 4.100; tube of the clepsydra, Pr. 914b14; βλέπειν διʼ αὐλοῦ GA 780b19. 3. in animals, blow-hole of cetacea, HA 589b19, PA 697a17; funnel of a cuttle-fish, HA 524a10; conus arteriosus in fishes, ib.507a10, Resp. 478b8; duct, prob. in GC 322a28. 4. stadium (cf. δίαυλος), 40. 5. haulm of grain, Sch. 10.46. 6. cow-bane, Cicuta virosa, Ps.- Fluv. 10.3. 7. εἶδος ἀκολάστου σχήματος, EM 170.28. II. razor-shell, = σωλήν (q.v.), ap. 3.90d, HN 32.103.
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