σκῦτος: Difference between revisions

|Definition=εος, τό, <span class="sense"><span class="bld">A</span> [[skin]], [[hide]], esp. [[dressed]] or [[tanned hide]], <span class="bibl">Od.14.34</span>, <span class="bibl">Hp.<span class="title">Art.</span>33</span>, <span class="bibl">Ar.<span class="title">Eq.</span>868</span>; <b class="b3">ὁ νοῦς γὰρ ἡμῶν ἦν τότ' ἐν τοῖς σκύτεσι</b> (with a reference to Cleon the tanner) <span class="bibl">Id.<span class="title">Pax</span>669</span>; εἰ ἐμβάται γένοιντο σκύτους <span class="bibl">X.<span class="title">Eq.</span>12.10</span>; τῶν σκυτῶν ῥυτίδες <span class="bibl">Pl.<span class="title">Smp.</span>191a</span>; σκυτῶν τομή <span class="bibl">Id.<span class="title">Chrm.</span>173d</span>. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">II</span> [[leather thong]], [[whip]], <span class="bibl">D.21.180</span>, <span class="bibl">Plu.<span class="title">Pomp.</span>18</span>, etc.; <b class="b3">σκύτη βλέπειν</b> to look like a whipped cur, <span class="bibl">Eup.282</span>, <span class="bibl">Ar.<span class="title">V.</span> 643</span>; σ. τέμνειν εἰς νουθεσίαν ἀνθρώπων ἀφρόνων <span class="bibl">Socr.<span class="title">Ep.</span>12</span>. (Cf. Skt. [[skunomi]] 'cover', Lat. [[obscurus]].) [[[σκύτος]] with ῠ occurs in codd.; but in <span class="bibl">Ar.<span class="title">Pl.</span>514</span> Bentl. restored [[σκῠλοδεψεῖν]]; so in <span class="bibl">Theoc. 25.142</span> [[σκύλος]] is the better reading, and in Lyc.1316 Scheer conjectures [[σκύλος]].]</span>