A). τράχηλα Call. Fr. 98 (= Iamb. 1.147 ):—neck, throat, Hdt. 2.40 , Hp. Aph. 4.35 , E. Cyc. 608 (lyr.), Sor. 1.84 , Gal. 6.151 , etc.; distd. fr. αὐχήν by Pl. Phdr. 253e (τράχηλος being, acc. to Gp. 19.2.3 , 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 Sor. Fasc. 37 (cf. αὐχήν in 38 , 39 , 40 , 41 ), Adam. 2.21 ; but αὐχήν in Hp. Prog. 23 is glossed τράχηλος by Gal. 18(2).264 , cf. Ruf. Onom. 66 , Poll. 2.130 ; in LXX , NT, and Pap. τ. is more freq. than αὐχήν) ; τ. σώματος χωρὶς τεμών E. Ba. 241 , cf. Supp. 716 ; ἀποτεμεῖν, ἀποκόψαι, Plu. Art. 29 , Flam. 18 , etc.; βρόχον δ’ ἐνίαλλε τραχήλῳ Theoc. 23.51 ; ἐς τ. πεσεῖν break one's neck, E. Tr. 755 ; ἐπὶ τ. ὠθεῖν τινα thrust head-foremost, Luc. DMort. 27.1 , Merc.Cond. 39 ; εἰς τ. Poll. 2.135 ; ἐπιπεσεῖν ἐπὶ τὸν τ. τινός LXX Ge. 46.29 , Ev.Luc. 15.20 ; ἐν βρόχῳ τὸν τ. ἔχων νομοθετεῖ with a halter round his neck, D. 24.139 ; ἔδει σε ἐν τῷ σῷ τ. ἐμπαίζειν at the risk of your own neck, PTeb. 758.2 (ii B. C.).

2). neck of animals, of the horse, X. Eq. 1.8 ; the hare, Id. Cyn. 5.30 ; the camel, Plu. 2.1125b , BGU 469.6 (ii A. D.); the neck as a joint of meat, Plu. Demetr. 11 ; of a fowl, Gal. 6.788 .

II). of parts resembling the neck, e. g. upper part of the murex, Eub. 66 , Posidipp. 14 , cf. Arist. HA 547a16 , Ath. 3.87f ; in the κάραβος the narrow part of the abdomen, Arist. HA 526a3 ; the neck of the grasshopper, ib. 556a2 .

2). neck of a vessel, BCH 35.286 (Delos), Hero Spir. 1.19 , al.; of a gourd, Arist. HA 616a23 ; of parts of the body, τ. μήτρας Hp. Mul. 2.169 , Poll. 2.222 ; ὑστέρας Sor. 1.7 ; κύστεως ibid., Gal. UP 14.9 , Poll. 2.171 ; καρδίας Placit. 4.5.8 .

3). middle part of a mast, Asclep.Myrl. ap. Ath. 11.475a .