τράγος [ ᾰ], ὁ,
he-goat, Od. 9.239, Pi. Fr. 201; opp. αἴξ (she-goat), Hdt. 2.46, PCair.Zen. 328.19 (iii B. C.), etc.; τῶν αἰγῶν τῶν τράγων Hdt. 3.112; τράγος γένειον.. πενθήσεις you will mourn your beard like the goat in the proverb, A. Fr. 207; Κιλίκιοι τράγοι, of longhaired men, Com.Adesp. 806; of men, τράγου ὄζειν, τράγου πνεῖν, to smell like a goat, AP 9.368 (Jul. Imp., perh. with play on signf. 111), 11.240 (Lucill.), cf. Gal. 17(2).152.
2. the age when change of voice and other signs of puberty appear, Hp. Epid. 6.4.21, Gal. UP 14.7. the change of the voice which takes place at this age, dub. in PLond. 1821.150; cf. τραγάω, τραγίζω.
3. lewdness, lechery, Luc. Sat. 28.
II the male of the fish μαινίς, Arist. HA 607b14, Clearch. 73, Gal. Vict.Att. 8, Opp. H. 1.108.
III spelt, Dsc. 2.93, Sor. 2.44, Gal. 15.455, Artem. 1.68. a rough kind of sponge, Arist. HA 548b5, Dsc. 5.120. among the Messenians, the wild fig, = ἐρινεός, Paus. 4.20.2, cf. Orac. ap. D.S. 8.21 (where perh. = goat).
2. = ἐφέδρα 111, Dsc. 4.51, Plin. HN 13.116, 27.142.
3. stinking nard, Valeriana saxatilis, Dsc. 1.8. part of the ear (cf. ἀντίτραγος), Poll. 2.85, 86, Ruf. Onom. 44. a kind of light Lycian ship, Poll. 1.83.
a kind of comet, Lyd. Ost. 10b.
2. a constellation of the δωδεκάωρος, Teucer in Cat.Cod. Astr. 7.204, 8(4).198, Id. in Boll Sphaera 48.