σκέπαρνον: Difference between revisions

|Definition=τό, or σκέπαρνος, ὁ (the Homeric passages and <span class="bibl">LXX <span class="title">1 Ch.</span>20.3</span>, <span class="bibl"><span class="title">Is.</span> 44.12</span>, leave the gender uncertain, masc. in <span class="bibl">Hp.<span class="title">Art.</span>35</span>, <span class="bibl">S.<span class="title">Fr.</span>797</span>, <span class="bibl"><span class="title">PCair.Zen.</span>753.33</span> (iii B.C.); later mostly neut., <span class="title">Peripl.M.Rubr.</span>6, <span class="title">AP</span>6.205 (Leon.), <span class="bibl">Luc.<span class="title">JConf.</span>11</span>, <span class="bibl">Poll. 10.146</span>, cf. Phot.):—<span class="sense"><p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">A</span> <b class="b2">carpenter's axe, adze</b>, for hewing and smoothing the trunks of trees, different from the <b class="b3">πέλεκυς</b> (felling-axe or hatchet), <span class="bibl">Od.5.237</span>, <span class="bibl">9.391</span>; <b class="b3">ἀμφίξουν</b> <span class="title">AP</span> l.c. </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">II</span> from a like ness in the shape, <b class="b2">a slightly oblique surgical bandage</b>, <span class="bibl">Hp.<span class="title">Off.</span>7</span> (neut.): but masc. in pl., [<b class="b3">ἐπίδεσις] πλείστους σκεπάρνους ἔχουσα</b> with many <b class="b2">oblique turns</b>, <span class="bibl">Id.<span class="title">Art.</span>35</span>. </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">III</span> used, as a sort of pun, of a <b class="b2">sheepskin</b>, as if <b class="b3">σκέπ-αρνον</b>, <span class="bibl">Dionys.Trag. 12</span>, cf. Sch.D.T.<span class="bibl">p.11</span> H., interpol. in <span class="bibl">Artem.4.22</span>. [Hom. does not lengthen a short vowel before <b class="b3">σκ-</b>, cf. <b class="b3">Σκάμανδρος</b>.]</span>