θώραξ, ᾱκος,
Epic dialect and Ionic dialect θώρηξ, ηκος, Aeolic dialect θόρραξ [[ 7th-6th c.BC: Alcaeus Lyricus 15 (codices 2nd c.AD: Athenaeus Epigrammaticus)] Refs 7th c.BC+], ὁ:— corslet, θ. χάλκεος [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 23.560; παναίολος 11.374; πολυδαίδαλος 4.136, compare 11.19, etc.; δεκάμνουν θώρηκος κύτος 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Pax” 1224; ἔξαιρε παῖ θώρακα.. τὸν χοᾶ [prev. author] “Ach.” 1133; θ... γυάλοισιν ἀρηρώς 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 15.529 (γύαλα explained as front- and back-piece fastened with περόναι, 2nd c.AD: Pausanias Periegeta 10.26.5); θώρηκος γύαλον 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 5.99 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; ὅθι διπλόος ἤντετο θ[[. 4.133; κατὰ ζώνην θώρηκος ἔνερθε 11.234 ] Refs]; linen jerkin (not worn by Homeric Greeks accusative to [[Scholia 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 2.529, but compare λινοθώρηξ), θόρρακες νέω λίνω 7th-6th c.BC: Alcaeus Lyricus [same place], compare 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 2.182, 3.47, “Chron.Lind.” C. 36, 2nd c.AD: Pausanias Periegeta 6.19.7. ] Refs 8th c.BC+]
__2 coat of mail, scale armour, θ. χρύσεος λεπιδωτός [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 9.22, compare 74; φολιδωτός 3rd c.BC: Posidippus Comicus 26.7, compare 2nd c.AD: Pausanias Periegeta 1.21.6 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; of chain mail, see at {ἁλυσιδωτός}.
__2.b slough of a serpent, καθάπερ ὄφις παλαιὸν ἀποδύεται θ. [[ 3rd c.AD: Porphyrius Tyrius Philosophus “adversus Christianos - Abh. Berl. Akad.” 88. ] Refs 3rd c.AD+]
__II part covered by the θώραξ [[ 1 ] Refs], trunk, [[ 5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “περὶ τέχνης” 10, 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Hercules Furens” 1095, 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Historia Animalium” 493a5; κεφαλῆς καὶ θώρακος καὶ τῆς κάτω κοιλίας [prev. author] “Pr.” 962a34 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; sometimes taken as extending below the midriff, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Timaeus” 69e; ἀπ᾽ αὐχένος μέχρι αἰδοίων 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Historia Animalium” 491a30, compare “PA” 686b5, ἐν τῷ κάτω θώρακος χωρίῳ] Refs 5th c.BC+], of the abdominal cavity, [[ 2nd c.AD: Galenus Medicus 16.448] Refs 2nd c.AD+]; but also of the chest, thorax, [[ 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Historia Animalium” 493a17 ] Refs 4th c.BC+]:—there is a play on significations [[ 1 and 11 in 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Vespae” 1194f ] Refs 5th c.BC+]