Trāchīn, īnis, or Trāchȳn, ȳnos, f., = Τραχίν or Τραχύν,
I 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.
II —Hence, Trāchīnĭus , a, um, adj., 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.