ἀρτηρία
οἷς πρόθεσίς ἐστιν ἀδικεῖν, παρ' αὐτοῖς οὐδὲ δικαία ἀπολογία ἰσχύει → not even a just excuse means anything to those bent on injustice | the tyrant will always find a pretext for his tyranny | any excuse will serve a tyrant
English (LSJ)
Ion. -ιη, ἡ,
A wind-pipe, ἡ ἀ. μόλις ἀναπνεούσῃ ὑπεσύριζε Hp.Epid.7.25, cf.39, Pl.Ti.70d, Arist.HA493a8, de An.420b29; ἡτραχεῖα ἀ. (cf. 11) Timoth. ap. Meno.Iatr.8.29, v. l. in Dsc.2.50, Luc.Hist. Conscr.7, S.E.M.9.178, etc.: in pl., bronchial tubes, ἆσθμα . . περὶ στήθεα καὶ ἀρτηρίας Hp.Epid.7.12 (vulg. but prob. l. -ίην, = trachea), cf. Pl.Ti.78c; πλεύμονος ἀρτηρίαι S.Tr.1054. II artery, as distinct from a vein, αἱ φλεβῶν καὶ ἀρτηριῶν κοινωνίαι Hp.Art.45, cf. 69; τὰς δὲ φλέβας καὶ τὰς ἀ. συνάπτειν εἰς ἀλλήλας . . τῇ αἰσθήσει φανερὸν εἶναι Arist.Spir.484a1; ἀ. λεῖαι (cf. I) Gal.UP8.1, al.; ἀ. φλεβώδης pulmonary vein, ib.6.10; believed to contain πνεῦμα by Erasistr., ib. 17, and derived fr. ἀήρ, τηρέω by Bacch. ap. Erot. s.v. ἀορτέων. III = ἀορτή, aorta, δύο εἰσὶ κοῖλαι φλέβες ἀπὸ τῆς καρδίης, τῇ μὲν οὔνομα ἀρτηρίη τῇ δὲ κοίλη φλέψ Hp.Carn.5. IV in pl. of the ureters, Id.Oss.10. (Contr. from ἀερτηρία, from ἀείρω 'attach' (q. v.), cf. ἀορτήρ, etc.)
