τράχηλος [ᾰ], ὁ,
Doric dialect τράχᾱλος [[ “IG” 42(1).122.3, +others (Epid., 4th c.BC)] Refs 4th c.BC+]: irregular plural τράχηλα [[ 3rd c.BC: Callimachus Epicus “Fragmenta” 98 (= “Iamb.” 1.147)] Refs 3rd c.BC+]:—neck, throat, [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 2.40, 5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “ἀφορισμοί” 4.35, 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Cyclops” 608 (Lyric poetry), 2nd c.AD: Soranus Medicus 1.84, 2nd c.AD: Galenus Medicus 6.151, etc.] Refs 5th c.BC+]; distinguished from αὐχήν by [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Phaedrus” 253e (τράχηλος] Refs 5th c.BC+] being, accusative to [[ “Geoponica” 19.2.3] Refs], 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 [[ 2nd c.AD: Soranus Medicus “de fasciis - Opera Hippocratis et Galeni” 37 (compare αὐχήν in 38, 39, 40, 41), 4th c.AD: Adamantius Physiognomonicus 2.21] Refs 2nd c.AD+]; but αὐχήν in [[ 5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “προγνωστικόν” 23 is glossed τράχηλος by 2nd c.AD: Galenus Medicus 18(2).264, compare 2nd c.AD: Rufus Medicus “περὶ ὀνομασίας” 66, 2nd c.AD(?): Pollianus Epigrammaticus 2.130; in LXX ] LXX+5th c.BC+], NT, and Papyrus τ. is more frequently than αὐχήν); τ. σώματος χωρὶς τεμών [[ 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Bacchae” 241, compare “Supp.” 716 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἀποτεμεῖν, ἀποκόψαι, [[ 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Artoxerxes” 29, “Flam.” 18, etc.; βρόχον δ᾽ ἐνίαλλε τραχήλῳ 3rd c.BC: Theocritus Poeta Bucolicus 23.51 ] Refs 3rd c.BC+]; ἐς τ. πεσεῖν break one's neck, [[ 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Troades” 755 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἐπὶ τ. ὠθεῖν τινα thrust head-foremost, [[ 2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “DMort.” 27.1, “Merc.Cond.” 39; εἰς τ. 2nd c.AD(?): Pollianus Epigrammaticus 2.135; ἐπιπεσεῖν ἐπὶ τὸν τ. τινός LXX.Gen.46.29, NT.Luke.15.20 ] NT+2nd c.AD+]; ἐν βρόχῳ τὸν τ. ἔχων νομοθετεῖ with a halter round his neck, [[ 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 24.139 ] Refs 4th c.BC+]; ἔδει σε ἐν τῷ σῷ τ. ἐμπαίζειν at the risk of your own neck, [[ PTeb. 758.2 (2nd c.BC). ] Refs 2nd c.BC+]