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φάραγξ [α^], αγγος, ἡ,
A.cleft, chasm, esp. in a mountain side, ravine, gully, Alcm.60.1 (pl.); “φ. πρὸς δυσχειμέρῳ” A.Pr.15, cf. 142 (anap.), al., E.IT277, X.HG7.2.13, Thphr.HP9.5.2 (pl.), Schwyzer 289.161 (Priene, ii B. C.), etc.; “πᾶσα φ. πληρωθήσεται” LXX Is.40.4; “πάντας . . ἐς φάραγγα ἐσέβαλον” Th.2.67; “ἐν πύλαισι γὰρ σταθεὶς φάραγγος” of the cave, E.Cyc.668; φάραγγα δακτύλου πιάσματι σύρει, of shaping a roll before it is baked, Eub.75.11:—metaph., of Cleon, “φάραγγα καὶ Χάρυβδιν ἁρπαγῆς” Ar.Eq.248 (troch.).
II. metaph., of the anus, Sotad.2.2.
Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. A Greek-English Lexicon. revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones. with the assistance of. Roderick McKenzie. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1940.

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