φλέψ, ἡ,
genitive φλεβός: also masculine, φλέβες οἰδαίνοντες (nisi to be read οἰδαίνοντος) [[ 4th-5th c.AD(?): Nonnus Epicus “Dionysiaca” 47.111 ] Refs 4th c.AD+]:— blood-vessel, whether vein or artery, [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 13.546, 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 4.2, 187, 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Fragmenta - American Journal of Philology” 230, 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Philoctetes” 825; distinguished from artery, 5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “περὶ τροφῆς” 31; φλὲψ κοίλη ] Refs 8th c.BC+]vena cava, [[ [prev. author] “Vict.” 1.9, 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Ion” 1011, 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Historia Animalium” 497a14; also called φ. μεγάλη, μεγίστη, [prev. work] 495b7, 496a26 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; φ. σπληνῖτις, ἡπατῖτις,[[ [prev. work] 512a6; φλέβες σπερματίτιδες 5th c.BC: Diogenes Apolloniates Philosophus 6 ] Refs 5th c.BC+] (also used of the ureters, [[ 5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “περὶ ὀστέων φύσιος” 4); γονίμη φλέψ ] Refs 5th c.BC+]membrum virile, [[ Anthologia Graeca 6.218 (7th-6th c.BC: Alcaeus Lyricus), cf. Neophro (?) in “PLit.Lond.” 77 “fragment” 2.7: so _absolutely_, “APl.” 4.261 (1st c.AD: Leonidas Alexandrinus Epigrammaticus); φλεβὸς τροπωτήρ 4th c.BC: Xenarchus Comicus 1.8 ] Refs 7th c.BC+]; φλέβα σχάζειν to open a vein, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Historia Graeca (Hellenica)” 5.4.58; λύειν 2nd-1st c.BC: Posidonius Historicus 72J. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; οὗ ἂν ἡ φ. σφύζῃ where the vein throbs, [[ 5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “ἐπιδημίαι” 2.5.16; αἱ φ. ἐξανίστανται 2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “Bis Acc.” 11. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__2 vein of metal, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “de Vectigalibus” 1.5, 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “de Generatione et Corruptione” 326b35, 1st c.BC: Diodorus Siculus Historicus 2.36, 2nd c.AD: Dionysius Periegeta 1104 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]: spring of water, [[ 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Problemata” 935b10; αἱ φ. τῆς πηγῆς 2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 34.9.7, compare “Supp.epigram” 4.467.5 (Didyma, 3rd c.AD), “Geoponica” 2.5.6. ] Refs 4th c.BC+]