σάκκος

English (LSJ)

or σάκος, ὁ, v. sub fin.:—

   A coarse cloth of hair, esp. of goats' hair, σάκκος τρίχινος Apoc.6.12, cf. LXX Is.50.3, Si.25.17.    II anything made of this cloth:    1 sack, bag, Hdt.9.80, Ar.Ach.745, Lys.1209, Gal.2.559,8.672:—as a measure, Ostr.1096, al.    2 sieve, strainer, esp. for wine, Hippon.57, Poll.6.19; σ. τρίχινοι PHamb.10.39 (ii A.D.).    3 coarse garment, sackcloth, worn as mourning by the Jews, LXX Ge.37.34, Ev.Luc.10.13, J.BJ2.12.5, cf. Plu.2.239c.    III coarse beard, like rough hair-cloth, σάκον πρὸς ταῖν γνάθοιν ἔχειν Ar.Ec.502; cf. σακεσφόρος 11.—The form σάκος is said to be Att., Ael.Dion.Fr.296, Phryn.229, Moer. p.354 P., Thom.Mag. p.344 R., etc.; while σάκκος is called Dor. by Phryn. l.c., Hellenic by Moer. and Thom.Mag. ll.cc., Comic by Poll.7.191. In Ar.Ach. 822, Ec.502, σάκος is required by the metre, as is σάκκος in Ach. 745 (Megarian), and in Hippon. l.c.; codd. of Hdt. give σάκκος. Inscrr. have σάκος IG22.1672.73,74, 108 and σάκκος ib.198: Papyri have σάκος PCair.Zen.753.27 (iii B.C.), UPZ84.52 (ii B.C.), but oftener σάκκος PSI4.427.1,14 (iii B.C.), PTeb.116.3 (ii B.C.), etc. (Prob. the word, like the thing, was borrowed from Phoenicia, cf. Hebr. saq.)