325-329.) taking the windpipe for the proper passage of the speech and breath....
Upon this, all being silent, Florus began thus: What, shall we tamely suffer Plato to be run down?
By no means, said I, for if we desert him, Homer must be in the same condition, for he is so far from denying the windpipe to be the passage for our drink, that the dry food, in his opinion, goes the same way.

For these are his words:-- From his gullet [Greek omitted] flowed The clotted wine and undigested flesh.
("Odyssey," ix.

373.) Unless perchance you will say that the Cyclops, as he had but one eye, so had but one passage for his food and voice; or would have [Greek omitted] to signify weasand, not windpipe, as both all the ancients and moderns use it.

I produce this because it is really his meaning, not because I want other testimonies, for Plato hath store of learned and sufficient men to join with him.

For not to mention Eupolis, who in his play called the "Flatterers" says, Protagoras bids us drink a lusty bowl, That when the Dog appears our lungs may still be moist; or elegant Eratosthenes, who says, And having drenched his lungs with purest wine; even Euripides, somewhere expressly saying, The wine passed through the hollows of the lungs, shows that he saw better and clearer than Erasistratus.