δίαυλος: Difference between revisions

|Definition=[ῐ], ὁ,<br><span class="bld">A</span> [[double]] [[pipe]] or [[channel]]: usually in the [[race]], [[double]] [[course]], Pi.''O.''13.37, E.''El.''825, ''IG''22.957, al.; [[compare]]d with [[recurrent]] [[nerve]]s, Gal.''UP''7.14.<br><span class="bld">b</span> δίαυλος [[ἵππος]], Hp.''Vict.''2.63.<br><span class="bld">2</span> metaph., <b class="b3">κάμψαι διαύλου θάτερον κῶλον πάλιν</b> to [[run]] the [[homeward]] [[course]], [[retrace one's steps]], [[Aeschylus|A.]]''[[Agamemnon|Ag.]]''344; <b class="b3">δίαυλοι κυμάτων</b> [[ebb and flow]], [[rise and fall]] of the [[wave]]s, E.''Hec.''29; <b class="b3">εἰς αὐγὰς πάλιν ἁλίου δισσοὺς ἂν ἔβαν διαύλους</b> they would [[twice]] [[return]], Id.''HF''662 (lyr.), cf. 1102; τὸν ὕστατον τρέχων δ. τοῦ βίου Alex.235; [[ἐκπεριτρέχειν διαύλους]] = to [[run]] [[to and fro]], Aristaenet.1.27; of a [[wife]]'s [[return]] to her [[husband]], Anaxandr.56.4.<br><span class="bld">II</span> [[strait]], E. ''Tr.''435.<br><span class="bld">2</span> in plural, of [[air]]-[[passage]]s, Opp.''C.'' 2.181.