Ἐν χρῷ κεκαρμένος

[Meaning he who has been shorn] to the very skin, as if having had the hairs shaved near and close to the skin.¹
And elsewhere: "he was a friend to him, skin-close."²
[The noun] xrw/s ["skin"] [is declined] xrw= [in the genitive] in Attic, like ge/lws, [genitive] ge/lw. But others say that [xrw=| comes from] xrw/s, [dative] xrwti/, with apocope of the syllable -ti.³