Τραφὲν ὄρεσι καὶ φάραγξιν ἀγρίαις, κήρυξ πέφυκα τῆς λόγου ὑμνῳδίας. Φωνήν μὲν οὐκ ἔναρθρον, εὔηχον δ' ἔχω (Byzantine riddle) → Raised in the mountains and wild ravines, I have become the herald of hymns that are sung. I have no articulate voice...
P. and V. ῥίς, ἡ. Ar. and V. μυκτήρ, ὁ (also Plato but rare P.), Ar. and V. μύξα, ἡ (Sophocles, Fragment).
with breath of snorting nostrils: V. μυκτηροκόμποις πνεύμασιν (Aesch., Seven Against Thebes 464).
