The corpus record

ῥύαξ

ruax · ὁ

rushing stream, mountain torrent

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Where it lives

Phaedo 3 · 1.38/10k
History 2 · 0.13/10k
Lives of Eminent Philosophers 1 · 0.09/10k

What it meant

ῥύαξ · rhyax — LSJ

rushing stream, mountain torrent

rushing stream, mountain torrent, Th. 4.96, Dsc. 3.51, prob. in OGI 335.111 (Pergam., ii B.C.).

2 stream of lava

esp. stream of lava from a volcano, ὁ ῥ. τοῦ πυρὸς ἐκ τῆς Αἴτνης Th. 3.116, cf. Pl. Phd. 111e, 113b, Arist. Mir. 833a17, Thphr. Lap. 22; ὁ καλούμενος ῥ. D.S. 14.59.

metaph., ῥ. ἀργύρου γενέσθαι Id. 5.35.

4 flow-holes

of dolphins, etc., ἔχει οἷον ῥ. δύο ἐξ ὧν τὸ γάλα ῥεῖ two flow-holes, Arist. HA 504b24.

In the wild

ῥύακος · rhyakos Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers 5.2 (DIORISIS sentence 4222)
ῥύακος · rhyakos Plato, Phaedo 111 (DIORISIS sentence 1149)
ῥύαξ · rhyax Plato, Phaedo 111 (DIORISIS sentence 1149)
ῥύακες · rhyakes Plato, Phaedo 113 (DIORISIS sentence 1172)
ῥύαξ · rhyax Thucydides, History 3.116.1 (DIORISIS sentence 2532)
ῥύακες · rhyakes Thucydides, History 4.96.2 (DIORISIS sentence 3127)

Where it came from

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