I.a town of Thessaly, on Mount Œta, where Hercules caused himself to be burned, Plin. 4, 7, 14, § 28; Sen. Herc. Oet. 135; 195; 1432; id. Troad. 818; Ov. M. 11, 627.—Hence, Trāchīnĭus , a, um, adj., of or belonging to Trachin, Trachinian: “tellus,” Ov. M. 11, 269: “miles,” Luc. 3, 177: “heros,” i. e. Ceyx, king of Trachin, Ov. M. 11, 351; called also, absol., Trachinius, id. ib. 11, 282; cf. “puppis,” the vessel in which Ceyx was shipwrecked, id. ib. 11, 502: “herba,” Plin. 27, 13, 114, § 141: “rosa,” id. 21, 4, 10, § 16: “Halcyone,” the consort of Ceyx, Stat. S. 3, 5, 57.—In plur. subst.: Trāchīnĭae , ārum, f., The Trachinian Women, a tragedy of Sophocles, Cic. Tusc. 2, 8, 20.
Trāchīn , īnis, or Trāchȳn , ȳnos, f., = Τραχίν or Τραχύν,
A Latin Dictionary. Founded on Andrews' edition of Freund's Latin dictionary. revised, enlarged, and in great part rewritten by. Charlton T. Lewis, Ph.D. and. Charles Short, LL.D. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1879.
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