φρύ-αγμα [ῠ], ατος, τό,
violent snorting, especially neighing or whinnying of a spirited horse (={ἡ τῶν ἵππων καὶ ἡμιόνων διὰ μυκτήρων ἠχή}, [[ “Etymologicum Magnum” 801.11), ἱππικὰ φ. 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Septem contra Thebas” 245, 475, 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Electra” 717; φ. καὶ φύσημα 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “de Equitandi ratione” 11.12 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; also of a boar, [[ 3rd c.AD: Oppianus Apamensis Epicus “Cynegetica” 2.457. ] Refs 3rd c.AD+]
__II metaphorically, wanton behaviour, insolence, [[ 2nd c.AD: Marcus Antoninus Imperator 4.48; τὸ ἐπ᾽ ὀφρύσι φ. “Anthologia Graeca” 12.101 (1st c.BC: Meleager Epigrammaticus)] Refs 1st c.BC+]; σοβαρὸν φ.[[ [prev. work] 5.17 (2nd-3rd c.AD: Rufinus Epigrammaticus); τὸ φ. αἴρειν 2nd-3rd c.AD: Aelianus “De Natura Animalium - Ar.Byzantine Epit.” 7.12; φ. πρός τινα 2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “Cat.” 26; φ. ὁμοζύγου πλουσίας 5th c.AD: Aristaenetus Rhetor 2.12, compare 2nd-3rd c.AD: Philostratus Sophista “Philostrati majoris imagines” 2.2. ] Refs 2nd c.AD+]