Trāchīn

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, Ov. M. 11, 351; called also, absol., Trachinius, id. ib. 11, 282; cf. puppis, id. ib. 11, 502: herba, Plin. 27, 13, 114, § 141: rosa, id. 21, 4, 10, § 16: Halcyone, Stat. S. 3, 5, 57.—In plur. subst.: Trāchīnĭae, ārum, f., The Trachinian Women, a tragedy of Sophocles, Cic. Tusc. 2, 8, 20.