(adjective) : Trāchīn, īnis, or Trāchȳn, ȳnos, f., = Τραχίν or Τραχύν
* A town of Thessaly, on Mount Oeta, 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, , 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.