φλέψ: Difference between revisions

|Definition=ἡ, gen. [[φλεβός]]: also masc., <b class="b3">φλέβες οἰδαίνοντες</b> (nisi leg. [[οἰδαίνοντος]]) <span class="bibl">Nonn.<span class="title">D.</span>47.111</span>:—<span class="sense"><span class="bld">A</span> [[blood-vessel]], whether [[vein]] or [[artery]], <span class="bibl">Il.13.546</span>, <span class="bibl">Hdt.4.2</span>, <span class="bibl">187</span>, <span class="bibl">A.<span class="title">Fr.</span>230</span>, <span class="bibl">S.<span class="title">Ph.</span>825</span>; distd. from artery, <span class="bibl">Hp. <span class="title">Alim.</span>31</span>; φλὲψ κοίλη [[vena cava]], <span class="bibl">Id.<span class="title">Vict.</span>1.9</span>, <span class="bibl">E.<span class="title">Ion</span>1011</span>, <span class="bibl">Arist.<span class="title">HA</span> 497a14</span>; also called <b class="b3">φ. μεγάλη, μεγίστη</b>, ib.<span class="bibl">495b7</span>, <span class="bibl">496a26</span>; <b class="b3">φ. σπληνῖτις, ἡπατῖτις</b>, ib.<span class="bibl">512a6</span>; φλέβες σπερματίτιδες <span class="bibl">Diog.Apoll.6</span> (also used of the [[ureters]], <span class="bibl">Hp.<span class="title">Oss.</span>4</span>); γονίμη φλέψ [[membrum virile]], AP 6.218 (Alc.), cf. Neophro (?) in <span class="bibl"><span class="title">PLit.Lond.</span>77</span><span class="title">Fr.</span>2.7: so abs., <span class="title">APl.</span>4.261 (Leon.); φλεβὸς τροπωτήρ <span class="bibl">Xenarch.1.8</span>; <b class="b3">φλέβα σχάζειν</b> to open [[a vein]], <span class="bibl">X.<span class="title">HG</span>5.4.58</span>; λύειν <span class="bibl">Posidon.72J.</span>; <b class="b3">οὗ ἂν ἡ φ. σφύζῃ</b> where the [[vein]] throbs, <span class="bibl">Hp.<span class="title">Epid.</span>2.5.16</span>; αἱ φ. ἐξανίστανται Luc.Bis Acc. 11. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">2</span> [[vein]] of metal, <span class="bibl">X.<span class="title">Vect.</span>1.5</span>, <span class="bibl">Arist.<span class="title">GC</span>326b35</span>, <span class="bibl">D.S.2.36</span>, <span class="bibl">D.P. 1104</span>: [[spring of]] water, <span class="bibl">Arist.<span class="title">Pr.</span>935b10</span>; αἱ φ. τῆς πηγῆς <span class="bibl">Plb.34.9.7</span>, cf. <span class="title">Supp.Epigr.</span>4.467.5 (Didyma, iii A. D.), <span class="title">Gp.</span>2.5.6. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">3</span> [[vein]] in plants, <span class="bibl">Arist.<span class="title">PA</span>668a25</span>, <span class="bibl">Thphr.<span class="title">HP</span>1.2.1</span>.</span>