σάκκος: Difference between revisions

|Definition=or [[σάκος]], ὁ, v. sub fin.:—<br><span class="bld">A</span> [[coarse]] [[cloth]] of [[hair]], esp. of goats' hair, σάκκος [[τρίχινος]] Apoc.6.12, cf. LXX Is.50.3, Si.25.17.<br><span class="bld">II</span> anything made of this [[cloth]]:<br><span class="bld">1</span> [[sack]], [[bag]], Hdt.9.80, Ar.Ach.745, Lys.1209, Gal.2.559,8.672:—as a measure, Ostr.1096, al.<br><span class="bld">2</span> [[sieve]], [[strainer]], esp. for wine, Hippon.57, Poll.6.19; σ. τρίχινοι PHamb.10.39 (ii A.D.).<br><span class="bld">3</span> [[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.<br><span class="bld">III</span> [[coarse]] [[beard]], like rough [[hair]]-[[cloth]], σάκον πρὸς ταῖν γνάθοιν ἔχειν Ar.Ec.502; cf. σακεσφόρος ''ΙΙ''.—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]].)