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τρα_χύν-ω , Ion. τρηχ- : pf. τετράχυ_κα （ἀπο-) D.H.Comp.22:—Pass., aor.
A.“ἐτρα_χύνθην” Pl.Ti.66c: pf. “τετράχυσμαι” Arist.HA536b23, (ἐκ-) Luc.Pisc.51; 3sg. “-υνται” Arist.Pr.901b11; inf. “-ύνθαι” Pl.Prt.333e: (τραχύς):—make rough, uneven, Id.Ti.65d: c. acc., τ. τὸ κύτος ib.67a; “αὔρη τρηχύνοι πέλαγος” A.R.4.768:— Pass., become rough, Pl.Ti.66c, Plu.Rom.3, etc.; of the sea, Arist. Col.791a21; of the voice, Id.Aud.803b2; τ. τῇ φωνῇ use rough, harsh tones, Plu.TG2.
2. in A.Th.1050, τράχυνε refers to τραχύς γε μέντοι δῆμος just before, call them harsh.
3. metaph. in Pass., to be angry, exasperated, “τετραχύνθαι τε καὶ ἀγωνιᾶν” Pl.Prt. 333e; “πρός τινα” Plb.2.21.3, Plu.Pel.26; τινι Anon. Oxy.664.38; τ. ὅτι . . D.H.Th.43.
4. τ. τὰς ἀκοάς grate roughly on the ears, Id.Comp.22.
II. intr., to be rough, “ὁ τραχύνων τόπος” D.S.1.32; “τὰ τραχύνοντα τοῦ ποταμοῦ” Plu.Cat.Ma. 20.
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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    • Aeschylus, Seven Against Thebes, 1050
    • Plato, Protagoras, 333e
    • Plato, Timaeus, 65d
    • Plato, Timaeus, 66c
    • Plato, Timaeus, 67a
    • Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica, 4.768
    • Polybius, Histories, 2.21.3
    • Plutarch, Marcus Cato, 20
    • Plutarch, Romulus, 3
    • Plutarch, Pelopidas, 26
    • Lucian, Piscator, 51
    • Diodorus, Historical Library, 1.32
    • Dionysius of Halicarnassus, De Thucydide, 43
    • Dionysius of Halicarnassus, De Compositione Verborum, 22
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