σκέπαρνον: Difference between revisions

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