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