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χοα?́ν-η , contr. χώνη ,
A.funnel, δίκην δὲ χοάνης (fort. ἀκοῇ δὲ χοάνην）“ ὦτα διετετρήνατο” Ar.Th.18, cf. Ph.1.245; “κύλικας ἀντλεῖν διὰ χώνης” Pherecr.108.31; “καταχεῖν ὥσπερ διὰ χώνης” Pl.R.411a; as a name of the throat, Alex.Aphr.Pr.2.3; as nickname of a great drinker, Ath.10.436e.
2. Medic., funnelshaped hollow in the brain, also called ληνός, πύελος, Herophil. ap. Theophil.Corp.Fabr.4.5.5.
3. hollow behind the eye, cj. in Emp. 84.9 (pl.).
II. = χόανος, melting-pot, Posidon.48J., Dsc.5.75, AP9.528 (Pall.).—The form χοάνη is said by Moer.p.401 P. to be Att. (cf. IG12313.127, 314.144), χώνη Hellenic.
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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    • Aristophanes, Thesmophoriazusae, 18
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