τράγον (tragon)

τράγον is an Ancient Greek form of τράγος, meaning “he-goat”. It is the accusative singular masculine noun.

It can also be a form of τρώγω, “chew, eat”.

It can also be a form of Τράγος, “Tragos — he-goat; goat; like a goat”. It is the accusative singular masculine noun or adjective.

Found 49 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Theocritus, Εἰδύλλια 1.4: αἴκα τῆνος ἕλῃ κεραὸν τράγον, αἶγα τὺ λαψῇ.

Pausanias, Description of Greece 8.23.2: … ωρίον ἔνθα ἄνεισιν ὀνομάζεται Ῥεῦνος· ἀνατείλαντος δὲ ἐνταῦθα, τὸ ὕδωρ τὸ ἀπὸ τούτου παρέχεται ποταμὸν ἀέναον Τράγον.

All forms of τράγος (declension table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Liddell-Scott-Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.