The headword is the dative singular -- determined by
e)/oiken -- of the noun
doqih/n (LSJ at web address 1).
cf.
delta 1321;
Hesychius alpha3429, delta2139, omicron639.
The quotation stems from
Aristophanes,
Wasps 1171-72 (web address 2) and represents the answer of Bdelycleon to his father Philocleon, who has just asked "Look at my gait, and see which rich man I resemble the most in my way of walking!". One would expect some proper name, but Bdelycleon unexpectedly answers: "Whom? a boil dressed with garlic!”. The
scholion Ravennas ad loc. only remarks that Bdelycleon
a)proslo/gws pai/zei, "is fooling beside the point". The
scholia recentiora refer the joke to the expression
diasalakwni/sai of line 1169, then give an alternative interpretation of the whole comparison: "[Bdelycleon speaks in this way] to his father, for he is wearing the cloak in an ugly and slouching way, just as the garlic is not proper for the therapy of a boil". However, it is known that among the ointments used in antiquity to heal abscesses, boils and other inflammations, garlic poultices were commonly used: cf.
Pliny the Elder,
Natural History 20.54-55;
Aristophanes,
Ecclesiazusae 404ff. Thus the meaning is probably that Philocleon’s get-up is similar to the walk of someone who is hobbling with a sore foot, or that he is completely enveloped in his cloak as a boil in its poultice.
The original text reads indeed
sko/rodon instead of the
skoro/dw| here: an accusative of relation, commonly occurring with the participle
h)mfiesme/nos in the sense of "dressed/clothed in something"; see
Aristophanes,
Thesmophoriazusae 92,
Ecclesiazusae 879 , etc. (LSJ at web address 1). An easy assimilation of the ending determined by the frequency of datives in the sentence has brought about the Suda’s variant.