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|Definition=ὁ, more rarely [[σκότος]], σκότεος, τό (v. sub fin.),<br><span class="bld">A</span> [[darkness]], [[gloom]], Od.19.389, Emp.121.4, Pi.''Fr.''142, etc.; opp. [[φάος]], A.''Ch.''319 (lyr.), E.''Hipp.''417, etc.; opp. [[ἡμέρα]], Pl.''Def.''411b.<br><span class="bld">2</span> in Il. always of the [[darkness]] of [[death]], mostly in phrase τὸν δὲ σκότος ὄσσε κάλυψεν 4.461, al.; στυγερὸς δ' ἄρα μιν σ. εἷλεν 5.47, 13.672; so in Trag. and Com., σκότῳ [[θανεῖν]] E.''Hipp.''837 (lyr.); <b class="b3">ἤδη με περιβάλλει σκότος</b> Id.''Ph.''1453; σκότος γίγνεται Pherecr.40; σκότον εἶναι τεθνηκότος (''[[sc.]]'' [[Αἰσχύλος|Αἰσχύλου]]) = it has been [[dark]] since he died Ar.''Fr.'' 643.<br><span class="bld">3</span> of the [[nether world]], Pi.''Fr.''130; σκότον νέμονται Τάρταρόν τε A.''Eu.''72, cf. ''Pers.''223; τὸν ἀεὶ κατὰ γᾶς σ. [[εἱμένος]] [[Sophocles|S.]]''[[Oedipus Coloneus|OC]]''1701 (lyr.); <b class="b3">παῖδες ἀρχαίου Σκότου</b> ib.106; ἰὼ σ., ἐμὸν φάος Id.''Aj.''394 (lyr.); γῆς σκότῳ κέκρυπται E.''Hel.''62; σκότου πύλαι Id.''Hec.''1.<br><span class="bld">4</span> the [[darkness]] of the [[womb]], φυγόντα [[μητρόθεν]] σκότον = when he escaped the [[darkness]] of his mother's [[womb]] A.''Th.''664: pl., ἐν σκότοισι νηδύος τεθραμμένη Id.''Eu.''665.<br><span class="bld">5</span> of [[blindness]], σκότου νέφος [[Sophocles|S.]]''[[Oedipus Tyrannus|OT]]'' 1313 (lyr.); <b class="b3">ὁθούνεκ' . . ἐν σκότῳ . . ὀψοίατο</b>, i.e. <b class="b3">οὐκέτι ὀψοίατο</b>, ib.1273; <b class="b3">βλέποντα νῦν μὲν ὄρθ', ἔπειτα δὲ σκότον</b>, i.e. [[μηδέν]], ib.419; σκότον δεδορκώς E.''Ph.''377, cf. ''HF''563.<br><span class="bld">b</span> [[dizziness]], [[vertigo]], Hp.''Epid.'' 5.23; σκότοι πρὸ τῶν ὀμμάτων [[Aristotle|Arist.]]''[[Historia Animalium|HA]]''584a3; cf. [[σκοτόδινος]], [[σκοτοδινιάω]].<br><span class="bld">6</span> metaph., σκότῳ [[κρύπτειν]] = [[hide]] in [[darkness]], S.''El.''1396 (lyr.), cf. Pi.''Frr.''42.5, 228; <b class="b3">σκότον ἔχειν</b> to be in [[darkness]], [[obscurity]], Id.''N.''7.13, E.''Fr.''1052.8; [[ἀπορία]] καὶ σκότος [[Plato|Pl.]]''[[Leges|Lg.]]''837a; περικαλύψαι τοῖσι πράγμασι σκότον [[Euripides|E.]]''[[Ion]]''1522: with Preps., <b class="b3">διὰ σκότους ἡ ὁδός</b> it is [[dark]] and [[uncertain]], X.''An.''2.5.9; ἐν σκότῳ [[καθήμενος]] Pi.''O.''1.83; μηδὲν ἐν σκότῳ τεχνωμένων [[Sophocles|S.]]''[[Antigone|Ant.]]''494; κατὰ σκότον Id.''Ph.''578; ὑπὸ σκότου Id.''Ant.''692, [[Euripides|E.]]''[[Orestes|Or.]]''1457 (lyr.), [[Xenophon|X.]]''[[Cyropaedia|Cyr.]]''4.6.4; ὑπὸ σκότῳ [[Aeschylus|A.]]''[[Agamemnon|Ag.]]''1030 (lyr.), E.''Ph.''1214.<br><span class="bld">7</span> of a person, [[Μητρότιμος]] ὁ σκότος, like ὁ [[σκοτεινός]], the [[mystery]]-[[man]], Hippon.78; also, [[darkness]], i.e. [[ignorance]], D.19.226; [[deceit]], σκότος καὶ [[ἀπάτη]] [[Plato|Pl.]]''[[Leges|Lg.]]''864c.<br><span class="bld">8</span> pl., [[σκότη]] = [[shadow]]s in a [[picture]], Paus.Gr.''Fr.''300, Suid. [[sub verbo|s.v.]] [[ἀπεσκοτωμένα]] = [[darkened]] (ones), [[stained]] (ones), Eust.953.51.—Ael.Dion. ''Fr.''217 regarded the masc. as the Att. form: the neut. never occurs in Ar., and is nowhere required by the metre in Trag., though it sometimes occurs in codd., E.''Hec.''831, ''HF''1159, ''Fr.''534, [[varia lectio|v.l.]] in [[Sophocles|S.]]''[[Oedipus Coloneus|OC]]''40, dub. l. in A.''Fr.''6; it is found, however, without v.l., in Pi.''Fr.''42.5 and Att. Prose, Pl.''R.''516e, ''Cra.''418c, D.18.159, etc.; also in [[Herodotus|Hdt.]]2.121. έ, X.''An.''2.5.9, 7.4.18; the word is always neut. in [[LXX]] and [[NT]].