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αὐχήν

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neck, throat

Appears 10 times across Plato's dialogues.

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Dictionary (LSJ)

αὐχήν, ένος, ὁ, A. neck, throat, of men and beasts, Il. 7.12, Hes. Op. 815, Arist. HA 493a5, PA 691b29: rarely, gullet, Nic. Th. 350: in pl., of one neck, S. Fr. 659.4, Orph. L. 137, AP 5.27 (Rufin.). 2. metaph., τὸν αὐ. ἱστάναι to be high-spirited, Philostr. 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, Hdt. 1.72,6.37, X. An. 6.4.3. 2. narrow sea, strait, of the Bosporus, Hdt. 4.85, 118; αὐ. πόντου, of the Hellespont, A. Pers. 72 (lyr.); of the point at which the Danube spreads from a single stream into several branches, Hdt. 4.89. 3. mountain-pass, defile, Id. 7.223. 4. neck of the thigh-bone, Hp. Art. 55; cervix uteri, Id. Steril. 230, Poll. 2.222 (but, pars vaginalis, Gal. UP 14.3); root of the tongue, Ruf. Onom. 57. 5. handle of the steering-paddle in a ship, Poll. 1.90: in pl., Polyaen. 3.11.14, Hld. 5.28. 6. an architectural member, αὐχένες δρύινοι SIG 2587.308. (Cf. αὔφην; ἄμφην Theoc. 30.28.)
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