θωρακεῖον

English (LSJ)

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   A θωράκιον 11, breastwork, parapet, or dwarf-wall of an enclosure, A.Th.32, IG22.463.86, IGRom.4.293ai39 (Pergam., ii B.C.), 1465,1474 (Smyrna), D.S.17.44 (v.l. -ίοις); the breast-high part of a wall-surface, ἵνα γραφῇ . . θ. ὀροβοειδές PCair.Zen.445 (iii B.C.).    2 gunwale of a trireme, IG22.1604.31.    II cuirass, PCair. Zen.14.12 (iii B.C.).

German (Pape)

[Seite 1230] τό, Brustwehr, Bollwerk; Aesch. Spt. 32; VLL.