tossing the neck, head
tossing the neck (or head), properly of horses: metaph., ῥιψαύχενι σὺν κλόνῳ Pi. Dith.Oxy. 1604 ii 13.
The corpus record
ῥιψ-αύχην
ripsauchen · ὁ
tossing the neck
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What it meant — LSJ
Where it came from
No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission. The etymological dictionaries (Beekes, Chantraine, Frisk) are matched incrementally.