τράχηλος: Difference between revisions

|Definition=[ᾰ], ὁ, Dor. τράχᾱλος <span class="title">IG</span>42(1).122.3, al. (Epid., iv B. C.): heterocl. pl. <span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">A</span> τράχηλα <span class="bibl">Call.<span class="title">Fr.</span>98</span> (= <span class="bibl"><span class="title">Iamb.</span>1.147</span>):—[[neck]], [[throat]], <span class="bibl">Hdt.2.40</span>, <span class="bibl">Hp.<span class="title">Aph.</span>4.35</span>, <span class="bibl">E.<span class="title">Cyc.</span>608</span> (lyr.), <span class="bibl">Sor.1.84</span>, Gal.6.151, etc.; distd. fr. [[αὐχήν]] by <span class="bibl">Pl.<span class="title">Phdr.</span>253e</span> ([[τράχηλος]] being, acc. to <span class="title">Gp.</span>19.2.3, [[the whole neck and throat]], [[αὐχήν]] the back part of the neck in human beings, the upper part in animals; this difference is observed in <span class="bibl">Sor.<span class="title">Fasc.</span>37</span> (cf. [[αὐχήν]] in <span class="bibl">38</span>,<span class="bibl">39</span>,<span class="bibl">40</span>,<span class="bibl">41</span>), Adam.2.21; but [[αὐχήν]] in <span class="bibl">Hp.<span class="title">Prog.</span>23</span> is glossed [[τράχηλος]] by Gal.18(2).264, cf. <span class="bibl">Ruf. <span class="title">Onom.</span>66</span>, <span class="bibl">Poll.2.130</span>; in LXX, [[NT]], and Pap. [[τ]]. is more freq. than [[αὐχήν]]) ; τ. σώματος χωρὶς τεμών <span class="bibl">E.<span class="title">Ba.</span>241</span>, cf. <span class="bibl"><span class="title">Supp.</span>716</span>; <b class="b3">ἀποτεμεῖν, ἀποκόψαι</b>, <span class="bibl">Plu.<span class="title">Art.</span>29</span>, <span class="bibl"><span class="title">Flam.</span>18</span>, etc.; βρόχον δ' ἐνίαλλε τραχήλῳ <span class="bibl">Theoc.23.51</span>; <b class="b3">ἐς τ. πεσεῖν</b> break one's [[neck]], <span class="bibl">E.<span class="title">Tr.</span>755</span>; <b class="b3">ἐπὶ τ. ὠθεῖν τινα</b> thrust [[head-foremost]], <span class="bibl">Luc.<span class="title">DMort.</span>27.1</span>, <span class="bibl"><span class="title">Merc.Cond.</span>39</span>; εἰς τ. <span class="bibl">Poll.2.135</span>; ἐπιπεσεῖν ἐπὶ τὸν τ. τινός <span class="bibl">LXX <span class="title">Ge.</span>46.29</span>, <span class="bibl"><span class="title">Ev.Luc.</span>15.20</span>; <b class="b3">ἐν βρόχῳ τὸν τ. ἔχων νομοθετεῖ</b> with a halter round his [[neck]], <span class="bibl">D.24.139</span>; <b class="b3">ἔδει σε ἐν τῷ σῷ τ. ἐμπαίζειν</b> at the risk of your own [[neck]], PTeb.758.2 (ii B. C.). </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">2</span> [[neck]] of animals, of the horse, <span class="bibl">X.<span class="title">Eq.</span>1.8</span>; the hare, <span class="bibl">Id.<span class="title">Cyn.</span>5.30</span>; the camel, Plu.2.1125b, <span class="bibl"><span class="title">BGU</span>469.6</span> (ii A. D.); [[the neck]] as a joint of meat, <span class="bibl">Plu.<span class="title">Demetr.</span> 11</span>; of a fowl, Gal.6.788. </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">II</span> of parts [[resembling the neck]], e. g. [[upper part of the murex]], <span class="bibl">Eub.66</span>, <span class="bibl">Posidipp.14</span>, cf. <span class="bibl">Arist.<span class="title">HA</span>547a16</span>, <span class="bibl">Ath.3.87f</span>; in the κάραβος [[the narrow part of the abdomen]], <span class="bibl">Arist. <span class="title">HA</span> 526a3</span>; the [[neck]] of the grasshopper, ib.<span class="bibl">556a2</span>. </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">2</span> [[neck]] of a vessel, <span class="title">BCH</span>35.286 (Delos), <span class="bibl">Hero <span class="title">Spir.</span>1.19</span>, al.; of a gourd, <span class="bibl">Arist.<span class="title">HA</span>616a23</span>; of parts of the body, τ. μήτρας <span class="bibl">Hp.<span class="title">Mul.</span>2.169</span>, <span class="bibl">Poll.2.222</span>; ὑστέρας <span class="bibl">Sor.1.7</span>; [[κύστεως]] ibid., <span class="bibl">Gal.<span class="title">UP</span>14.9</span>, <span class="bibl">Poll.2.171</span>; καρδίας <span class="title">Placit.</span>4.5.8. </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">3</span> [[middle part of a mast]], Asclep.Myrl. ap. <span class="bibl">Ath.11.475a</span>.</span>