σκύτη

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ἢν μή τις ὥσπερ σφηκιὰν βλίττῃ με κἀρεθίζῃ → may no one squeeze me and tease me like a wasp | may no one smoke me and tease me like a wasp | but if anyone annoys me and rifles my nest, they'll find a wasp inside | still if you wake a wasps' nest then of wasps you must beware

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Transliteration A: skýtē Transliteration B: skytē Transliteration C: skyti Beta Code: sku/th

English (LSJ)

κεφαλή, Hsch.; also σκύτα· τὸν τράχηλον, Σικελοί, Id.; freq. in Hp. acc. to Psell. ap. Zonar.1 p.cxviii.8 Tittm.; cited fr. Hp. by Erot. and expld. as

   A part of the neck or spinal marrow or scalp, citing Archil.122; τὰ σκύταλα (leg. σκύτα) ... ὅ ἐστι τοὺς τραχήλους, Sch. Ar.Av.1283 (ascribed to Epich. (173a) by Kaibel CGFp.vii).

German (Pape)

[Seite 908] dor. σκύτα, ἡ, der Kopf, Archil. frg. 99.