A.goat-stag, a fantastic animal, represented on Eastern carpets and the like , Ar.Ra.937; “οἱ γραφῆς τραγελάφους καὶ τὰ τοιαῦτα μειγνύντες γράφουσιν” Pl.R.488a, cf. Arist.APr.49a24, APo.92b7; “ποῦ ἐστὶ τ. ἢ σφίγξ;” Id.Ph.208a30.
2. a drinking-cup, which had such a creature worked in relief on the fore-part, or was itself in this shape, Antiph. 224.4, Diph.80, Men.24, etc.; so “θρόνος . . ἔχων τραγελάφων προτομὰς ἐκτύπους, ἐξ ὧν ἤρτηντο κρίκοι” D.S.18.26; as a signet, IG22.1388.62, Inscr.Délos 442 B191 (ii B. C.).
3. a what's-itsname, thingumbob, τίθεται (sc. σκινδαψός) καὶ κατ᾽ οὐδενὸς (fort. καὶ ἐπὶ τοῦ δεῖνος legend.) “ὡς τὸ τραγέλαφος” St.Byz. s.v. Γαληψός.
II. later, a real animal of Arabia, or on the Phasis, prob. a kind of wild goat or antelope, LXX Jb.39.1, D.S.2.51, Plin.HN8.120, etc.