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τράγος

τράγος, a he-goat

τράγος [ᾰ], ὁ,
  • he-goat, Od. 9.239, Pi. Fr. 201; opp. αἴξ (she-goat), Hdt. 2.46, PCair.Zen. 328.19 (iii B. C.), etc.; τῶν αἰγῶν τῶν τράγων Hdt. 3.112; τράγος γένειον . . πενθήσεις you will mourn your beard like the goat in the proverb, A. Fr. 207; Κιλίκιοι τράγοι, of longhaired men, Com.Adesp. 806; of men, τράγου ὄζειν, τράγου πνεῖν, to smell like a goat, AP 9.368 (Jul. Imp., perh. with play on signf. III), 11.240 (Lucill.), cf. Gal. 17(2).152.
      • 2 the age when change of voice and other signs of puberty appear, Hp. Epid. 6.4.21, Gal. UP 14.7.
        • b the change of the voice which takes place at this age, dub. in PLond. 1821.150; cf. τραγάω, τραγίζω.
      • 3 lewdness, lechery, Luc. Ep.Sat. 28.
    • II the male of the fish μαινίς, Arist. HA 607b14, Clearch. 73, Gal. Vict.Att. 8, Opp. H. 1.108.
    • III spelt, Dsc. 2.93, Sor. 2.44, Gal. 15.455, Artem. 1.68.
    • IV a rough kind of sponge, Arist. HA 548b5, Dsc. 5.120.
    • V among the Messenians, the wild fig, = ἐρινεός, Paus. 4.20.2, cf. Orac. ap. D.S. 8.21 (where perh. = goat).
      • 2 = ἐφέδρα III, Dsc. 4.51, Plin. HN 13.116, 27.142.
      • 3 stinking nard, Valeriana saxatilis, Dsc. 1.8.
    • VI part of the ear (cf. ἀντίτραγος), Poll. 2.85, 86, Ruf. Onom. 44.
    • VII a kind of light Lycian ship, Poll. 1.83.
    • VIII a kind of comet, Lyd. Ost. 10b.
      • 2 a constellation of the δωδεκάωρος, Teucer in Cat.Cod.Astr. 7.204, 8(4).198, Id. in Boll, Sphaera 48.

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