σκάφιον: Difference between revisions

|Definition=[ᾰ] (A) (not [[σκαφίον]]), τό, Dim. of [[σκάφη]], <span class="sense"><span class="bld">A</span> [[small]] [[bowl]] or [[small]] [[basin]], <span class="bibl">Thphr.<span class="title">CP</span>4.16.3</span>, <span class="bibl"><span class="title">PLond.</span>2.402</span><span class="bibl"> ii 13</span> (ii B.C.), <span class="bibl"><span class="title">PHamb.</span>10.36</span> (ii A.D.), etc.; used in baths, Lyc. ap. <span class="bibl">Ath.11.501f</span>; [[small cup]], <span class="bibl">Phylarch. 44</span> J., <span class="title">Inscr.Délos</span> 442 <span class="title">B</span> 43, al. (ii B.C.). </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">2</span> woman's [[chamberpot]] or woman's [[nightstool]], <span class="bibl">Ar.<span class="title">Th.</span>633</span>, <span class="bibl">Eup.46</span>. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">II</span> a fashion of [[haircutting]] (borrowed from the Scythians), in which the [[hair]] was cut close off round the [[head]], so as to leave it only on the [[crown]], which then looked like a [[bowl]], σκάφιον ἀποκεκαρμένη <span class="bibl">Ar.<span class="title">Th.</span>838</span>; σ. ἀποτετιλμένος <span class="bibl">Id.<span class="title">Av.</span>806</span>: hence, </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">2</span> [[crown]] of the head, <b class="b3">ἵνα μὴ καταγῇς τὸ σ</b>. <span class="bibl">Id.<span class="title">Fr.</span>604</span>. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">b</span> [[occiput]], Ruf.<span class="title">Oss.</span>2. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">c</span> name of a bandage for the head, <span class="bibl">Sor.<span class="title">Fasc.</span>3</span>. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">III</span> in pl., = [[ἰσχία]], τά, <span class="bibl">Poll.2.183</span>. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">IV</span> = [[σκαφεῖον]] ''1'', <span class="bibl">Hp.<span class="title">Fract.</span>8</span>.</span><br /><span class="bld">σκάφιον</span> [ᾰ] (B), τό, Dim. of [[σκάφος]] (B), <span class="sense"><span class="bld">A</span> [[small boat]], <span class="bibl">Str. 17.1.50</span>, <span class="bibl">Hld.10.4</span>.</span>