The corpus record

σᾰγή

sage · ἡ

pack, baggage

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Where it lives

Seven Against Thebes 2 · 3.97/10k
Libation Bearers 2 · 3.72/10k
Persians 1 · 1.96/10k
Rhesus 1 · 1.86/10k
Heracles 1 · 1.28/10k
Machabaeorum II 1 · 0.87/10k

What it meant — LSJ

pack, baggage, scrip, wallet, knapsack, harness, furniture, equipment, armour, harness

a manʼs pack, baggage, αὐτόφορτος οἰκεία σαγῇ, i.e. carrying his own baggage, etc., A. Ch. 675; scrip, wallet, knapsack, Ion Trag. 7: then, generally, harness, furniture, equipment, παντελῆ σαγὴν ἔχων A. Ch. 560, cf. E. Rh. 207; τοξήρης σ. Id. HF 188; esp. armour, harness, S. Fr. 1092 (prob.), cf. Ar. Fr. 848, Men. 1061, LXX 2 Ma. 3.25; also in pl., φεράσπιδες σαγαί A. Pers. 240 (troch.), cf. Th. 125 (lyr.), 391.

II pack-saddle, padding

later, = σάγμα II, pack-saddle, PGoodsp.Cair. 30 xxxviii 16 (ii A.D.), Babr. 7.12, Poll. 1.185, 10.54; καμήλου J. AJ 1.19.10; also the padding of a saddle, Str. 15.1.20. (From σάττω: hence πανσαγία or πασσαγία.—On the accent, v. Hdn.Gr. 1.309.)

In the wild

σαγὴν · sagēn Aeschylus, Libation Bearers 560–562
σαγῇ · sagēi Aeschylus, Libation Bearers 675–678
σαγαί · sagai Aeschylus, Persians 240
σαγαῖς · sagais Aeschylus, Seven Against Thebes 124–127
σαγαῖς · sagais Aeschylus, Seven Against Thebes 391–394
σαγήν · sagēn Euripides, Heracles 188

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Where it came from

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