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φυ_σ-ητήρ , ῆρος, ὁ,
A.instrument for blowing, blowpipe or tube, “φ. ὀστέϊνοι” Hdt.4.2, cf. Opp.H.4.463.
2. bellows, LXX Jb.32.19, Poll.10.147, Gal.2.717.
3. blow-hole or spiracle of whales, etc., Arist.HA566b3; the funnel through which the cuttle-fish squirts its ink, ib.541b17.
II. one who blows a pipe or bellows, Dsc.5.75 (v.l.), Suid. s.v. ἐξέλιπε.
2. a kind of whale, perh. Biscay whale, Str.3.2.7.
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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    • Herodotus, Histories, 4.2
    • Old Testament, Job, 32.19
    • Strabo, Geography, 3.2.7
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