θωρακεῖον

τό
A. θωράκιον 11, breastwork, parapet, or dwarf-wall of an enclosure, A. Th. 32, IG 22.463.86, IGRom. 4.293a i39 (Pergam., ii B.C.), 1465,1474 (Smyrna), D.S. 17.44 (v.l. ‐ίοις); the breast-high part of a wall-surface, ἵνα γραφῇ . . θ. ὀροβοειδές PCair.Zen. 445 (iii B.C.).
2. gunwale of a trireme, IG 22.1604.31.
II. cuirass, PCair. Zen. 14.12 (iii B.C.).
Liddell, Scott & Jones
A Greek-English Lexicon, 1940
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