θρίξ, ἡ,
genitive τρῐχός, dative plural θριξί (τρίχεσιν [[ 1st c.AD: Josephus Historicus “Antiquitates Judaicae” 16.7.3 is _falsa lectio_ for{τρύχ-})] Refs 1st c.AD+]: - hair, [[ 8th c.BC: Homerus Epicus ] Refs 8th c.BC+] only in plural, ὀρθαὶ τρίχες ἔσταν ἐνὶ.. μέλεσσι [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 24.359 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; mostly, hair of the head,[[ 22.77, 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 13.431; αἱ ἐν τῇ κεφαλῇ τρίχες 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 1.6 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; sheep's wool, [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 3.273, 8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus “Opera et Dies” 517 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; pig's bristles, [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 19.254, 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 10.239 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; τρίχες ἄκραι οὐραῖαι, of a horse's tail, [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 23.519 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; ἀνάστασις τῶν τριχῶν, of a lark's crest, [[ 2nd c.AD: Galenus Medicus 12.361. ] Refs 2nd c.AD+]
__II later in singular collectively, [[ 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Septem contra Thebas” 535, “Ag.” 562, 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Electra” 451 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; τριχὸς πλόκαμος, βόστρυχος, [[ 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Septem contra Thebas” 564 (Lyric poetry), “Ch.” 229; γενείον θρίξ [prev. author] “Pers.” 1056; κόμη θρίξ LXX.Num.6.6 ] LXX+4th c.BC+]; Ἐπαφρόδιτον.. τὴν παιδικὴν τρίχα Ὑγίᾳ (i.e. ἀνέθηκεν) [[ “IG” 12(5).173 (Paros, 1st c.AD) ] Refs 1st c.AD+]; of a horse's mane, [[ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Fragmenta” 475 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; of dogs, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Cynegeticus” 4.8 (_sing._ and _plural_). ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__II.2 a single hair, οὐδὲ τρίχ[α] [[ 7th-6th c.BC: Alcaeus Lyricus “Supp.” 14.10: proverbial, θρὶξ ἀνὰ μέσσον] Refs 7th c.BC+] only a hair's breadth wanting, [[ 3rd c.BC: Theocritus Poeta Bucolicus 14.9, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Symposium” 6.2 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἄξιον τριχός, i.e. good for nothing, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Ranae” 614; οὐδ᾽ ἂν τριχὸς πριαίμην 5th c.BC: Eupolis Comicus 7.18D. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἐκ τριχὸς κρέμασθαι to hang by a hair, [[ 5th c.AD: Aristaenetus Rhetor 2.1, 2nd c.AD: Zenobius Paroemiographus 3.47; ἀπὸ τ. ἠερτῆσθαι “Anthologia Graeca” 5.229 (Paul. Sil.); ἐπὶ τριχὸς ἦν ἡ σωτηρία 6th c.AD: Procopius Caesariensis Historicus “de Aedificiis” 6.6 ] Refs 2nd c.AD+]; εἰς ἱερὴν τρίχα ἐλθεῖν, i.e. to come to life's end, variant in [[“Anthologia Graeca” 7.164 (Antip. Sid.), but compare “epigram Gr.” 248.13] Refs]; μόνον οὐχὶ τῶν τ., φασί, λαμβάνεται 'saute aux yeux', [[ 2nd c.AD: Sextus Empiricus Philosophus “adversus Mathematicos” 7.257. ] Refs 2nd c.AD+]