Σκύτος

leather

Translated by Abram Ring19 Apr 2014Vetting: high3 revisions

2 notes · 37 words
[Meaning] any [sc. kind of] skin. From which also [comes] the [noun] skuteu/s ["leather-man"].1
"And he drives the spear into the head, yet he does not split [it] open, as the spear-point slides off round the leather."2

Greek original · Adler’s text

Σκύτος· πᾶν δέρμα. ἀφ' οὗ καὶ σκυτεύς. ὁ δὲ εἰς τὸ κράνος φέρει τὸ δόρυ, οὐ μέντοι διεῖλέ γε, περιολισθούσης τῆς αἰχμῆς περὶ τὸ σκύτος.

Betacode
*sku/tos: pa=n de/rma. a)f' ou(= kai\ skuteu/s. o( de\ ei)s to\ kra/nos fe/rei to\ do/ru, ou) me/ntoi diei=le/ ge, periolisqou/shs th=s ai)xmh=s peri\ to\ sku/tos.

Notes (2)

  1. 1Likewise or similarly in other lexica, including Apollonius' Homeric Lexicon, and a scholion to Homer, Odyssey 14.34. Here "leather" means leather helmet. For "leather-man" see also the first gloss at sigma 727. ↩
  2. 2Quotation (transmitted, in Adler's view, via the Excerpta Constantini Porphyrogeniti) unidentifiable. ↩

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σ724Σκυτοδέψηςleather-tannerσ725Σκυτοδέψηςleather-tannerσ726Σκύτοςleatherσ727Σκυτοτόμοςshoemaker, hide-cutterσ728Σκύφοςgoblet
Revision history3 revisions · last 20 Apr 2015
  1. coding — Catharine Roth
  2. augmented notes and keywords; tweaking; raised status — David Whitehead
  3. cosmetics, status — Catharine Roth
  4. Translated — Abram Ring

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