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αὐλός

αὐλός, aulos (wind instrument resembling oboe)

αὐλός, ὁ,
  • pipe, flute, clarionet, Il. 10.13, 18.495, h.Merc. 452; Λύδιος Pi. O. 5.19; Ἔλυμος, i.e. Φρύγιος (q. v.), S. Fr. 398; Λίβυς E. Alc. 347; αὐ. γυναικήιος, ἀνδρήιος, Hdt. 1.17; αὐ. ἀνδρεῖοι, παιδικοί, παρθένιοι, Ath. 4.176f, Poll. 4.81; ὁ παρθένιος αὐ. τοῦ παιδικοῦ ὀξύτερος Arist. HA 581b11; διδύμοις αὐλοῖσιν ἀεῖσαι Theoc. Ep. 5.1; ἐμφυσᾶν εἰς αὐλούς D.S. 3.59; αὐ. Ἐνυαλίου, i.e. a trumpet, AP 6.151 (Tymn.); ὑπʼ αὐλοῦ to the sound of the flute, Hdt. l.c.; πρὸς τὸν αὐ., ὑπὸ τὸν αὐ., X. Smp. 6.3, etc.: pl., αὐλοὶ πηκτίδος pipes of the πηκτίς, IG 4.53 (Aegina).
      • 2 hollow tube, pipe, groove, περόνη τέτυκτο αὐλοῖσιν διδύμοισι the buckle was furnished with two pipes or grooves (into which the tongue fitted), Od. 19.227; ἐγκέφαλος παρʼ αὐλὸν ἀνέδραμε spirted up beside the vizard (cf. αὐλῶπις), or beside the socket of the spear-head into which the shaft fitted, Il. 17.297; but in Od. 22.18 αὐλὸς παχύς means the jet of blood through the tube of the nostril; αὐλὸς ἐκ χαλκείου the smithʼs bellows, Hp. Art. 47, 77, cf. Th. 4.100; tube of the clepsydra, Arist. Pr. 914b14; βλέπειν διʼ αὐλοῦ Id. GA 780b19.
      • 3 in animals, blow-hole of cetacea, Id. HA 589b19, PA 697a17; funnel of a cuttle-fish, Id. HA 524a10; conus arteriosus in fishes, ib. 507a10, Resp. 478b8; duct, prob. in Id. GC 322a28.
      • 4 stadium (cf. δίαυλος), Lyc. 40.
      • 5 haulm of grain, Sch. Theoc. 10.46.
      • 6 cow-bane, Cicuta virosa, Ps.-Plu. Fluv. 10.3.
      • 7 εἶδος ἀκολάστου σχήματος, EM 170.28.
    • II razor-shell, = σωλήν (q.v.), Diph.Siph. ap. Ath. 3.90d, Plin. HN 32.103.

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