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|Definition=ᾱκος, Ep. and Ion. [[θώρηξ]], ηκος, Aeol. [[θόρραξ]] <span class="bibl">Alc.15</span> (codd. Ath.), ὁ:—<span class="sense"><span class="bld">A</span> [[corslet]], θώραξ χάλκεος <span class="bibl">Il.23.560</span>; παναίολος <span class="bibl">11.374</span>; πολυδαίδαλος <span class="bibl">4.136</span>, cf. <span class="bibl">11.19</span>, etc.; δεκάμνουν θώρηκος κύτος <span class="bibl">Ar.<span class="title">Pax</span>1224</span>; ἔξαιρε παῖ θώρακα… τὸν χοᾶ <span class="bibl">Id.<span class="title">Ach.</span>1133</span>; θ… γυάλοισιν ἀρηρώς <span class="bibl">Il.15.529</span> ([[γύαλα]] expld. as front- and back-piece fastened with [[περόναι]], <span class="bibl">Paus.10.26.5</span>); θώρηκος γύαλον <span class="bibl">Il.5.99</span>; [[ὅθι διπλόος ἤντετο θώρηξ]] = [[where the cuirass met the buckle so as to be double]] <span class="bibl">4.133</span>; κατὰ ζώνην θώρηκος ἔνερθε <span class="bibl">11.234</span>; linen [[jerkin]] (not worn by Homeric Greeks acc. to Sch.<span class="bibl">Il.2.529</span>, but cf. [[λινοθώρηξ]]), θόρρακες νέω λίνω Alc. l.c., cf. <span class="bibl">Hdt.2.182</span>, <span class="bibl">3.47</span>, <span class="title">Chron.Lind.</span>C.<span class="bibl">36</span>, <span class="bibl">Paus.6.19.7</span>. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">2</span> [[coat of mail]], [[scale armour]], θώραξ χρύσεος λεπιδωτός <span class="bibl">Hdt.9.22</span>, cf. <span class="bibl">74</span>; φολιδωτός <span class="bibl">Posidipp.26.7</span>, cf. <span class="bibl">Paus.1.21.6</span>; of chain mail, v. [[ἁλυσιδωτός]]. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">b</span> [[slough]] of a [[serpent]], [[καθάπερ ὄφις παλαιὸν ἀποδύεται θώρακα]] = [[just as a snake sheds its old skin]] <span class="bibl">Porph.<span class="title">Chr.</span>88</span>. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">II</span> [[part covered by the thorax]] ''1'', [[trunk]], <span class="bibl">Hp.<span class="title">de Arte</span>10</span>, <span class="bibl">E.<span class="title">HF</span>1095</span>, <span class="bibl">Arist.<span class="title">HA</span>493a5</span>; κεφαλῆς καὶ θώρακος καὶ τῆς κάτω κοιλίας <span class="bibl">Id.<span class="title">Pr.</span>962a34</span>; sometimes taken as extending below the midriff, <span class="bibl">Pl.<span class="title">Ti.</span>69e</span>; ἀπ' αὐχένος μέχρι αἰδοίων <span class="bibl">Arist.<span class="title">HA</span>491a30</span>, cf. <span class="bibl"><span class="title">PA</span>686b5</span>, [[ἐν τῷ κάτω θώρακος χωρίῳ]], of the [[abdominal cavity]], Gal.16.448; but also of the [[chest]], [[thorax]], <span class="bibl">Arist.<span class="title">HA</span>493a17</span>:—there is a play on signfs. ''1'' and ''ΙΙ'' in <span class="bibl">Ar.<span class="title">V.</span>1194</span> sq. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">b</span> [[thorax]] of crustaceans, <span class="bibl">Arist. <span class="title">HA</span>601a13</span>, al. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">2</span> [[bandage for the chest]], Heliod. ap. <span class="bibl">Orib.48.48</span> tit., <span class="bibl">Sor.<span class="title">Fasc.</span>33</span>, cf. Gal.18(1).817. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">III</span> = [[θωράκιον]] 11, <span class="bibl">Hdt.1.181</span>, <span class="bibl">D.C.74.10</span>.</span>