τραγέλαφος: Difference between revisions

|Definition=ὁ, <span class="sense"><span class="bld">A</span> [[goat-stag]], a fantastic animal, represented on Eastern carpets and the like, <span class="bibl">Ar.<span class="title">Ra.</span>937</span>; οἱ γραφῆς τραγελάφους καὶ τὰ τοιαῦτα μειγνύντες γράφουσιν <span class="bibl">Pl.<span class="title">R.</span>488a</span>, cf. <span class="bibl">Arist.<span class="title">APr.</span>49a24</span>, <span class="bibl"><span class="title">APo.</span>92b7</span>; ποῦ ἐστὶ τ. ἢ σφίγξ; <span class="bibl">Id.<span class="title">Ph.</span>208a30</span>. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">2</span> [[a drinking-cup]], which had such a creature worked in relief on the fore-part, or was itself in this shape, <span class="bibl">Antiph. 224.4</span>, <span class="bibl">Diph.80</span>, <span class="bibl">Men.24</span>, etc.; so θρόνος . . ἔχων τραγελάφων προτομὰς ἐκτύπους, ἐξ ὧν ἤρτηντο κρίκοι <span class="bibl">D.S.18.26</span>; as a signet, <span class="title">IG</span>22.1388.62, <span class="title">Inscr.Délos</span> 442 <span class="title">B</span>191 (ii B. C.). </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">3</span> a <b class="b2">what's-itsname, thingumbob</b>, [[τίθεται]] (sc. [[σκινδαψός]]) <b class="b3"> καὶ κατ' οὐδενὸς</b> (fort. <b class="b3">καὶ ἐπὶ τοῦ δεῖνος</b> legend.) ὡς τὸ τραγέλαφος St.Byz. [[sub verbo|s.v.]] [[Γαληψός]]. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">II</span> later, a real animal of Arabia, or on the Phasis, prob. a kind of [[wild goat]] or [[antelope]], <span class="bibl">LXX <span class="title">Jb.</span>39.1</span>, <span class="bibl">D.S.2.51</span>, <span class="bibl">Plin.<span class="title">HN</span>8.120</span>, etc.</span>