A.“φάρυγγος” E.Cyc.356 (lyr.)), as ib.410,592, Cratin.186,257 (troch.), Telecl.1.12 (anap.), Ar.Fr.614), later “φάρυγγος” Nic.Al.363: (φάρος):—throat, “φάρυγος δ᾽ ἐξέσσυτο οἶνος” Od.9.373; “φάρυγος λάβε δεξιτερῆφιν” 19.480; ὁ φ. εὐτρεπὴς ἔστω, for dinner, E.Cyc.215, cf. ll.cc.; ὦ μιαρὰ φ., of a glutton, Ar.Ra.571; “ηὔξατό τις ὀψοφάγος ὢν τὸν φ. αὑτῷ μακρότερον γεράνου γενέσθαι” Arist.EN1118a33: of singing, “κεκραξόμεσθά γ᾽ ὁπόσον ἡ φ. ἂν ἡμῶν χανδάνῃ” Ar.Ra.259 (lyr.), cf. Hp.Carn. 16, 18, Acut.59, al.—Used of the windpipe by Arist.PA664a16, 665a10, cf. de An.421a4, Gal.6.176; opp. παρίσθμια and λάρυγξ, ib.674, cf. 15.789,792, Aret.CA1.9; “τὴν φ. κέρχνειν” Diocl.Fr.147; of the oesophagus by EM557.17; of the pharynx by Hp.Prog.23 (cf. Gal.18(2).264), Poll.2.207; both of pharynx and windpipe by Gal.UP8.1.
II. dewlap of a bull. Hld.2.1.
III. pl., of diseases of the throat, Hp.Aph.3.5.—The gender is indeterm. in Hom.: fem., in Att., Phryn.46, cf. Cratin.and Ar.ll.cc., Pherecr.69, Th.2.49, Call.(?) Fr.331 (cf. Fr.51 P.); masc. in Epich.21, Telecl.1.12, E.Cyc.215, etc.: both genders in Hp., Arist., etc., and later writers (ἡ Aristid. Or.48(24).57, Ael.NA1.30, Paus.8.37.8, ὁ Plu.2.698f, Luc.Asin.38).
