A.larynx or upper part of the windpipe, Arist. HA493a6; used in sounding the vowels, ib.535a32: but in Poets confused with φάρυγξ (gullet) (cf. Arist.HA535a29), E.Cyc.158; “χωρεῖν κατὰ τοῦ λ.” Pherecr.108.7, cf. Crobyl.8; of gluttons, “ἀνόσιοι λάρυγγες” Eub.139; “ἐκ τοῦ λ. ἐκκρεμάσας τινά” Ar.Eq.1363; “τὸν λάρυγγ᾽ ἂν ἐκτέμοιμί σου” Id.Ra.575: metaph., λ. γλυκύς speech, LXX Si.6.4.
λάρυγξ [α^], υγγος, ὁ,
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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