σάκκος: Difference between revisions

|Definition=or σάκος, ὁ, v. sub fin.:—<span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">A</span> [[coarse cloth of hair]], esp. of goats' hair, σάκκος τρίχινος <span class="bibl"><span class="title">Apoc.</span>6.12</span>, cf. <span class="bibl">LXX <span class="title">Is.</span>50.3</span>, <span class="bibl"><span class="title">Si.</span>25.17</span>. </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">II</span> [[anything made of this cloth]]: </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">1</span> [[sack]], [[bag]], <span class="bibl">Hdt.9.80</span>, <span class="bibl">Ar.<span class="title">Ach.</span>745</span>, <span class="bibl"><span class="title">Lys.</span>1209</span>, Gal.2.559,8.672:—as a measure, <span class="bibl"><span class="title">Ostr.</span>1096</span>, al. </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">2</span> [[sieve]], [[strainer]], esp. for wine, <span class="bibl">Hippon.57</span>, <span class="bibl">Poll.6.19</span>; σ. τρίχινοι <span class="bibl"><span class="title">PHamb.</span>10.39</span> (ii A.D.). </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">3</span> [[coarse garment]], [[sackcloth]], worn as mourning by the Jews, <span class="bibl">LXX <span class="title">Ge.</span>37.34</span>, <span class="bibl"><span class="title">Ev.Luc.</span>10.13</span>, <span class="bibl">J.<span class="title">BJ</span>2.12.5</span>, cf. Plu.2.239c. </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">III</span> [[coarse beard]], like rough hair-cloth, σάκον πρὸς ταῖν γνάθοιν ἔχειν <span class="bibl">Ar.<span class="title">Ec.</span>502</span>; cf. σακεσφόρος ''ΙΙ''.—The form [[σάκος]] is said to be Att., <span class="bibl">Ael.Dion.<span class="title">Fr.</span>296</span>, Phryn.229, <span class="bibl">Moer. p.354</span> P., <span class="bibl">Thom.Mag. p.344</span> R., etc.; while [[σάκκος]] is called Dor. by Phryn. l.c., Hellenic by Moer. and Thom.Mag. ll.cc., Comic by <span class="bibl">Poll.7.191</span>. In <span class="bibl">Ar.<span class="title">Ach.</span> 822</span>, <span class="bibl"><span class="title">Ec.</span>502</span>, [[σάκος]] is required by the metre, as is [[σάκκος]] in <span class="bibl"><span class="title">Ach.</span> 745</span> (Megarian), and in Hippon. l.c.; codd. of Hdt. give [[σάκκος]]. Inscrr. have σάκος <span class="title">IG</span>22.1672.73,74, 108 and [[σάκκος]] ib.198: Papyri have σάκος <span class="bibl"><span class="title">PCair.Zen.</span>753.27</span> (iii B.C.), <span class="bibl"><span class="title">UPZ</span>84.52</span> (ii B.C.), but oftener σάκκος <span class="bibl"><span class="title">PSI</span>4.427.1</span>,<span class="bibl">14</span> (iii B.C.), <span class="bibl"><span class="title">PTeb.</span>116.3</span> (ii B.C.), etc. (Prob. the word, like the thing, was borrowed from Phoenicia, cf. Hebr. [[saq]].) </span>