θώραξ
τίς γὰρ ἁδονᾶς ἄτερ θνατῶν βίος ποθεινὸς ἢ ποία τυραννίς; τᾶς ἄτερ οὐδὲ θεῶν ζηλωτὸς αἰών → What human life is desirable without pleasure, or what lordly power? Without it not even the life of the gods is enviable.
English (LSJ)
ᾱκος, Ep. and Ion. θώρηξ, ηκος, Aeol. θόρραξ Alc.15 (codd. Ath.), ὁ:—
A corslet, θ. χάλκεος Il.23.560; παναίολος 11.374; πολυδαίδαλος 4.136, cf. 11.19, etc.; δεκάμνουν θώρηκος κύτος Ar.Pax1224; ἔξαιρε παῖ θώρακα . . τὸν χοᾶ Id.Ach.1133; θ . . . γυάλοισιν ἀρηρώς Il.15.529 (γύαλα expld. as front- and back-piece fastened with περόναι, Paus.10.26.5); θώρηκος γύαλον Il.5.99; ὅθι διπλόος ἤντετο θ. 4.133; κατὰ ζώνην θώρηκος ἔνερθε 11.234; linen jerkin (not worn by Homeric Greeks acc. to Sch.Il.2.529, but cf. λινοθώρηξ), θόρρακες νέω λίνω Alc. l.c., cf. Hdt.2.182, 3.47, Chron.Lind.C.36, Paus.6.19.7. 2 coat of mail, scale armour, θ. χρύσεος λεπιδωτός Hdt.9.22, cf. 74; φολιδωτός Posidipp.26.7, cf. Paus.1.21.6; of chain mail, v. ἁλυσιδωτός. b slough of a serpent, καθάπερ ὄφις παλαιὸν ἀποδύεται θ. Porph.Chr.88. II part covered by the θώραξ 1, trunk, Hp.de Arte10, E.HF1095, Arist.HA493a5; κεφαλῆς καὶ θώρακος καὶ τῆς κάτω κοιλίας Id.Pr.962a34; sts. taken as extending below the midriff, Pl.Ti.69e; ἀπ' αὐχένος μέχρι αἰδοίων Arist.HA491a30, cf. PA686b5, ἐν τῷ κάτω θώρακος χωρίῳ, of the abdominal cavity, Gal.16.448; but also of the chest, thorax, Arist.HA493a17:—there is a play on signfs. 1 and 11 in Ar.V.1194 sq. b thorax of crustaceans, Arist. HA601a13, al. 2 bandage for the chest, Heliod. ap. Orib.48.48 tit., Sor.Fasc.33, cf. Gal.18(1).817. III = θωράκιον 11, Hdt.1.181, D.C.74.10.
French (Bailly abrégé)
ᾱκος (ὁ) :
1 partie du corps des épaules à la naissance des cuisses, tronc, buste;
2 p. ext. cuirasse, armure de la poitrine ; fig. murailles, remparts.
Étymologie: DELG pas d’étym., attesté en myc. to-ra-ke ; prob. emprunt.
English (Strong)
of uncertain affinity; the chest ("thorax"), i.e. (by implication) a corslet: breast-plate.
