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|Definition=ης, ἡ, <span class="sense"><p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">A</span> <b class="b2">pair of bellows</b>, mostly in pl., <b class="b3">τὸν δ' εὗρ' . . ἑλισσόμενον περὶ φύσας</b>, sc. Hephaestus, <span class="bibl">Il.18.372</span>, cf. <span class="bibl">409</span>; φύσας ἐσθέντες ἐφύσων <span class="bibl">Th.4.100</span>; αἱ φ. αἱ ἐν τοῖς χαλκείοις <span class="bibl">Arist.<span class="title">Resp.</span>474a12</span>; τοῦ χαλκέος δύο φύσας <span class="bibl">Hdt.1.68</span>: hence <b class="b3">ἐν τῇσι φύσῃς</b> in the <b class="b2">smithies</b> <span class="bibl">Herod.3.21</span>. </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">2</span> <b class="b2">bladder</b>, Dsc.5.94, <span class="title">Hippiatr.</span>33, <b class="b2">Gloss.;</b> φῦσαν ὑπηνέμιον <span class="title">AP</span>9.486 (Pall.); φ. χηνεία <span class="title">PMag.Lond.</span>46.382; of the castoreum <b class="b2">pouches</b> of the beaver, Dsc.2.24. </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">3</span> = [[φαρέτρα]], Hsch. </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">4</span> = [[ἀσκός]], Id. </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">II</span> <b class="b2">breath, wind, blast</b>, ἀγρίαις φύσαισι φυσᾶν <span class="bibl">S.<span class="title">Fr.</span> 768</span>; <b class="b3">ἐς τὸν ἀσκὸν φῦσαν ἐνιέναι</b> . . <b class="b2">to inflate</b>, <span class="bibl">Hp.<span class="title">Art.</span>47</span>, cf. <span class="bibl">77</span>. </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">2</span> <b class="b2">wind in the body, flatus</b>, <span class="bibl">Id.<span class="title">VM</span>10</span>,<span class="bibl">22</span>, <span class="bibl"><span class="title">Aph.</span>4.73</span>; <b class="b2">breaking of wind</b>, opp. <b class="b3">ἐρυγμός, πταρμός</b>, <span class="bibl">Arist.<span class="title">Pr.</span>962a35</span>: pl., <span class="bibl">Pl.<span class="title">R.</span>405d</span>, <span class="bibl">Arist.<span class="title">HA</span> 604a12</span>; <b class="b3">περὶ φυσῶν</b>, title of work by Hippocrates. </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">3</span> of fire, <b class="b2">stream, jet</b>, φλὸξ φῦσαν ἱεῖσα πυρός <span class="bibl"><span class="title">h.Merc.</span>114</span>. </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">4</span> <b class="b2">bubble</b>, φ. ἐπίχρυσοι <span class="bibl">Luc.<span class="title">Merc.Cond.</span>22</span>. </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">III</span> <b class="b2">crater of a volcano</b>, <span class="bibl">Str.13</span>. <span class="bibl">4.11</span>, Oros.<span class="bibl">6.2.17</span>. </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">IV</span> <b class="b2">calyx of</b> φυσαλλίς <span class="bibl">111</span>, Dsc.<span class="title">Eup.</span>1.51. </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">V</span> name of <b class="b2">a fish</b> found in the Nile, <span class="bibl">Str.17.2.4</span>, <span class="bibl">Ath.7.312b</span>. (Cf. Lith. <b class="b2">pučiù</b> 'I blow', Lat. <b class="b2">pustula</b>, etc.; onomatop.; v. may be Egyptian.)</span>

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