ῥάκος [ᾰ], εος, τό,
ragged, tattered garment, δὸς ῥ. ἀμφιβαλέσθαι [[ 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 6.178, compare 13.434, 14.342, 349 (never in 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad”)] Refs 8th c.BC+]; ἀνθ᾽ ἱματίου μὲν ἔχειν ῥ. [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Plutus” 540; ῥ. φορεῖ 4th c.BC: Antiphanes Comicus 204.6, “PPetr.” 3p.115 (3rd c.BC),compare 4th-3rd c.BC: Philemo Comicus 146:] Refs 5th c.BC+] frequently in plural ῥάκεα, _Attic dialect_ ῥάκη, rags, tatters, [[ 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 14.512, 18.67, 74, 19.507, +others, 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 3.129, 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Philoctetes” 39, 274; ἐν ῥάκεσι περιφθείρεσθαι 5th-6th c.BC: Isocrates Orator “Epistulae” 9.10. ] Refs 8th c.BC+]
__2 generally, strip of cloth, ῥάκεα φοινίκεα [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 7.76, cf. NT.Matt.9.16, 2nd c.AD: Arrianus Historicus “Tactica” 35.3 ] NT+5th c.BC+]: even a strip of flesh, σώματος ῥ. [[ 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Prometheus Vinctus” 1023. ] Refs 4th c.BC+]
__3 collectively, rag, lint, [[ 5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “περὶ νούσων” 2.36; ῥάκη λινᾶ 1st c.AD: Dioscorides (Dioscurides) Medicus 5.75.15. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__II in plural also, rents in the face, wrinkles, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Plutus” 1065. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__III metaphorically, rag, remnant, εἰκάσαι τὸ ἐρείπιον ῥάκει οἰκίας [[ Anonymus cited in 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Rhetorica” 1413a6 ] Refs 4th c.BC+]; of an old seaman, ἁλίοιο βίου ῥ. [[“Anthologia Graeca” 9.242 (1st c.AD: Antiphilus Epigrammaticus), compare 7.380 (1st c.BC-1st c.AD: Crinagoras Epigrammaticus), 2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “Tim.” 32.] Refs 1st c.BC+] —The _Aeolic dialect_ form βράκος (which see), used of a garment, lacks the sense 'ragged'.