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τρα^χηλ-ίζω , fut. Att.
A.“-ιῶ” PPetr.2p.52 (iii B. C.):—bend or twist the neck of a victim, “βοῦν” Thphr.Char.27.5.
II. in wrestling, 'scrag' one's opponent, “τοὺς νεανίσκους” Plu.Ant.33:— Pass., Pl.Amat.132c, Teles p.50 H., Them.Or.23.291b.
2. metaph., inflict hardship on a combatant, “τοὺς . . φίλους οἱ λειπόμενοι τραχηλιοῦσι πόλεμοι” Ph.2.131:—Pass., “ἐμφυλίῳ πολέμῳ καὶ διχονοίᾳ -ιζόμενοι” J.BJ4.6.2.
3. metaph. in Pass., to be overpowered, swept away, “ταῖς ἐπιθυμίαις” Ph.2.127; of ships in a whirlpool, Str.6.2.3.
III. in a pun on signfs. 1, 11.1, and 11.3, ἰδὼν Ὀλυμπιονίκην εἰς ἑταίραν πυκνότερον ἀτενίζοντα, "ἴδε" ἔφη, "κριὸν Ἀρειμάνιον ὡς ὑπὸ τοῦ τυχόντος κορασίου -ίζεται" see how the ram's neck is being twisted, D.L.6.61, cf. Plu.2.521b; τοὺς πολυπράγμονας ἴδοις ἂν ὑπὸ παντὸς ὁμοίως θεάματος -ιζομένους καὶ περιαγομένους ibid.
IV. Pass., to be laid open, Ep.Hebr.4.13; τετραχηλισμένα: πεφανερωμένα, Hsch.
Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. A Greek-English Lexicon. revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones. with the assistance of. Roderick McKenzie. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1940.

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    • Flavius Josephus, The Jewish War, 4.6.2
    • Plato, Lovers, 132c
    • Theophrastus, Characters, 27.5
    • Strabo, Geography, 1
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