ῥέγκω

hregko

snore

Appears 3 times across Aristotle's works.

Frequency by work

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History of Animals 2
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Book IV 1
Chapter 10 536b24–537b21

537b3
Book VI 1
Chapter 12 566b2–567a16

566b15
On Youth, Old Age, Life and Death, and Respiration 1
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Chapter 18 476b13–477a10

476b20

Dictionary (LSJ)

ῥέγκω, A. snore, A. Eu. 53, Eup. 267, Ar. Nu. 5, al.; of horses, snort, E. Rh. 785; of a dolphin asleep, Arist. HA 537b3, 566b15:—in Ar. Eq. 115 also in Med. ῥέγκεται, but (as Sch. observes) only to balance πέρδεται; but cf. ll. cc. infr.—The form ῥέγχω occurs in Hp. Aph. 6.51, Arist. ll. cc., Men. Mon. 711, Herod. 8.2, LXX Jn. 1.5,6, Orph. Fr. 148: Med., τῆς πλευρᾶς ῥέγχομαι I am wheezing from my lung, POxy. 1414.26 (iii A.D.), cf. AP 11.343.

Key passages & sense analysis (Bonitz)

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