αὐλών, ῶνος, ὁ,
also ἡ [[ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Fragmenta” 549, 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Aves” 244, 5th c.BC: Carcinus Tragicus 1, 2nd-3rd c.AD: Philostratus Sophista “Philostrati majoris imagines” 2.6] Refs 5th c.BC+]:— hollow between hills or banks, defile, glen, [[ hymnus ad Mercurium 95, 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 7.128, 129, Ar. [prev. cited] (Lyric poetry)] Refs 5th c.BC+]; explained as οἱ στενοὶ καὶ ἐπιμήκεις ποταμοί [[ Scholia 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” “Oxy.” 221 xiv 19. ] Refs 8th c.BC+]
__2 channel, trench, [[ 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Fragmenta - American Journal of Philology” 167A, 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 2.100, 127, 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 2.3.10. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__3 strait, Μαιωτικός[[ 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Prometheus Vinctus” 731] Refs 4th c.BC+]; πόντιαι αὐ. sea-straits, channels, [[ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Trachiniae” 100 (Lyric poetry). ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__4 pipe, conduit, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Timaeus” 79a] Refs 5th c.BC+]; metaphorically of windpipe or duct, [[ 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “de Partibus Animalium” 664a27, 2nd c.AD: Galenus Medicus “de Usu Partium” 4.14. ] Refs 4th c.BC+]
__5 furrow in an elephant's hide, [[ 2nd c.AD: Aretaeus Medicus “περὶ αἰτιῶν καὶ σημείων χρονίων παθῶν” 2.13.] Refs 2nd c.AD+]