σκῖρος: Difference between revisions

|Definition=ὁ,<br><span class="bld">A</span> [[hard]] (perhaps [[chalk) land overgrown with bushes]], [[scrub]], Tab.Heracl.1.19; <b class="b3">τῶν ξύλων.. τῶν ἐν τοῖς σ.</b> ib.144; = [[πυρρώδης]] ([[ῥυπώδης]] cj. Mein.) [[γῆ]] acc. to Philet. ap. [[Hesychius Lexicographus|Hsch.]]; <b class="b3">σκ[ε]ίρα</b> (leg. [[σκῖρα]]) <b class="b3">.. χωρία ὕλην ἔχοντα εὐθετοῦσαν εἰς φρύγανα</b>, [[Hesychius Lexicographus|Hsch.]]; <b class="b3">σκ[ε]ῖρος·.. ἄλσος καὶ δρυμός</b>, Id. (but opp. [[δρυμός]], ''Tab.Heracl.'' ll.cc.); ἠὲ σ. ἔην, νῦν αὖ θέτο τέρματ' Ἀχιλλεύς Il.23.332,333 as shortened into one line by Aristarch. (here = [[ῥίζα, διὰ τὸ ἐσκιάσθαι]] acc. to Sch.T ad loc.).<br><span class="bld">2</span> [[hardened swelling]] or [[tumour]], [[induration]], Hp.''Mul.''1.18 (<b class="b3">τὸν σκῖρον [σκίρρον</b> codd.] σκῦρον ὀνομάζει Erot. [[sub verbo|s.v.]] [[σκυρωθῶσι]]), Sor.2.7 ([[σκύρου]] cod.), 9 ([[σκύρον]] cod.), 56, Gal.11.736, Aret.''CD''1.14 ([[σκίρρος]] codd.).<br><span class="bld">3</span> σκίρρος, = [[γύψος]], Suid. (cod. A in marg.); also [[σκίρρα]], = [[γῆ λευκή, ὥσπερ γύψος]], Id. (written σκίρα Id.s.v. [[σκίρος]]) ; <b class="b3">γῆ σκιρράς</b>, Sch.Ar.''V.''921.