The corpus record

ῥέγκ-ω

regko

snore, snort, am wheezing

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Where it lives

Jonas 2 · 19.01/10k
Eumenides 1 · 1.91/10k
Rhesus 1 · 1.86/10k
De Respiratione 1 · 1.65/10k
Discourses 4 · 0.54/10k

What it meant — LSJ

snore, snort, am wheezing

snore, A. Eu. 53, Eup. 267, Ar. Nu. 5, al.; of horses, snort, E. Rh. 785; of a dolphin asleep, Arist. HA 537b3, 566b15:—in Ar. Eq. 115 also in Med. ῥέγκεται, but (as Sch. observes) only to balance πέρδεται; but cf. ll. cc. infr.—The form ῥέγχω occurs in Hp. Aph. 6.51, Arist. ll. cc., Men. Mon. 711, Herod. 8.2, LXX Jn. 1.5, 6, Orph. Fr. 148: Med., τῆς πλευρᾶς ῥέγχομαι I am wheezing from my lung, POxy. 1414.26 (iii A.D.), cf. AP 11.343.

In the wild

ῥέγκουσι · rhenkousi Aeschylus, Eumenides 53
ῥέγχουσιν · rhenchousin Aristotle, De Respiratione (DIORISIS sentence 113)
ῥέγκων · rhenkōn Epictetus, Discourses 1.24 (DIORISIS sentence 1252)
ῥέγκε · rhenke Epictetus, Discourses 2.20 (DIORISIS sentence 3192)
ῥεγκόντων · rhenkontōn Epictetus, Discourses 3.22 (DIORISIS sentence 4888)
ῥέγχω · rhenchō Epictetus, Discourses 4.10 (DIORISIS sentence 7116)

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Where it came from

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