The corpus record

ῥῆξις

rexis · ἡ

breaking, bursting

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Where it lives

De Mundo 1 · 1.58/10k
Phoenissae 1 · 1.04/10k
Lives of Eminent Philosophers 4 · 0.37/10k

What it meant — LSJ

breaking, bursting, broken

breaking, bursting, φλεβίου Hp. Aph. 4.78; sc. ὀστέου Id. VC 12; πλευμόνων Phld. Ir. p.28 W. (pl.); ἐμπύρους τʼ ἀκμὰς ῥήξεις τε, i.e. both the pointed flames and the broken (the former a good omen, the latter bad), E. Ph. 1256; κατὰ ῥῆξιν νέφους Arist. Mu. 394b17, cf. Stoic. 1.34; ἀέρος ῥ., as the effect of a mighty shout, Plu. Flam. 10.

2 breaking forth, discharge

breaking forth, τῶν καταμηνίων Hp. Aph. 3.28 (pl.); αἵματος ῥ. διὰ ῥινῶν Id. Prog. 7; discharge, Id. Aph. 5.15, Epid. 6.6.12.

II rent, cleft

rent, cleft, Plu. Fac.lun. 2.935c (pl.); ῥήξεις ἐν τοῖς τείχεσιν Ph. Bel. 84.22.

In the wild

ῥῆξιν · rhēxin Aristotle, De Mundo (DIORISIS sentence 67)
ῥήξεως · rhēxeōs Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers 10.1 (DIORISIS sentence 9102)
ῥήξεις · rhēxeis Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers 10.1 (DIORISIS sentence 9089)
ῥήξεις · rhēxeis Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers 10.1 (DIORISIS sentence 9097)
ῥήξεως · rhēxeōs Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers 7.1 (DIORISIS sentence 6498)
ῥήξεις · rhēxeis Euripides, Phoenissae *)/aggelos.1255 (DIORISIS sentence 734)

Where it came from

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