Σκήπιος

Notes

1. Similar entry, according to Adler, in the Ambrosian Lexicon 447 (with *skh/yios as the headword, but see below). The Suda's headword skh/pios, condemned by Bernhardy, is unattested elsewhere, and has perhaps become contaminated by the next entry, sigma 577 (*Skhpi/wn). In any event, the translation of the headword here assumes that it is an error for the participle skhpto/menos, which, if correct, means that that participle has two entries in the Suda: see sigma 580. *skhpto/menos is glossed in Timaeus' Platonic Lexicon with the same participle that the Suda uses here, and in Synagoge 113 by that participle along with two others that are used for glosses in sigma 580 (cf. also Photius, as well as sigma 579, sigma 584, sigma 589). The alternative offered by the Ambrosian Lexicon, *skh/yios, is equally unlikely: that word is attested as the genitive case of the name of the city of Scepsis (sigma 590), and as an ethnic adjective (nominative singular masculine) for someone from that city, most frequently the grammarian Demetrius of Scepsis, who is often referred to simply as o( *skh/yios ('the Scepsian').