σανίς

English (LSJ)

ίδος, ἡ,

   A board, plank, timber, σ. πτελεΐνη IG12.313.133, cf. 22.1672.168, Plb.1.22.9, AP9.269 (Antip. Thess.), Act.Ap.27.44, etc.; σ. ἄξοος Call.Fr.105:—hence anything made thereof,    1 door, Hom. always in pl., folding doors, Il.12.453,461, Od.22.128, etc.; κολληταὶ σ. Il.9.583; σ. πυκινῶς ἀραρυῖαι, δικλίδες Od.2.344, cf. Il.21.535; πύλῃσιν ἐπικεκλιμέναι σ. 12.121: rarely in sg., E.Or.1221.    2 wooden platform, scaffold, or stage, ἐφ' ὑψηλῆς σ. Od.21.51.    3 wooden floor, esp. ship's deck, E.Hel.1556, Archimel. ap. Ath.5.209c, Luc.JTr.48.    4 bench, seat, SIG244B61 (Delph., iv B.C.), Herod.7.5.    5 lid of box, v.l. in LXX 4 Ki.12.9.    6 in pl., wooden tablets for writing on, E.Alc.967 (lyr.): esp.at Athens and elsewh., tablets covered with gypsum, on which were written all sorts of public notices, esp. the causes for hearing in the law-courts, Ar.V.349,848; laws to be proposed, Decr. ap. And.1.84; laws corrected by the Thesmothetae, Aeschin.3.39; lists of officers, Lys.26.10; accounts, IG12.374.190; names of debtors, D.25.70 (in sg.), Isoc.15.237: sg. also in SIG 975.30 (Delos, iii B.C.); at Rome, of the tables on which the laws were written, D.C.42.32.    b pl., painted panels, pictures, SIG 977a10 (Delos, ii B.C.).    7 plank to which offenders were bound or nailed, ζῶντα πρὸς σανίδα διε- (v.l. προσδιε-) πασσάλευσαν Hdt.7.33; σανίδι προσπασσαλεύσαντες Id.9.120, cf. Cratin.341; ἐν τῇ σ. δῆσαι, πρὸς τῇ σ. δεῖν Ar.Th.931,940; σανίσι προσδῆσαι Duris 67 J.