1. σᾱκός · sakos
The corpus record
σάκος
sakos · ὁ
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Where it lives
- Shield of Heracles 6 · 18.55/10k
- Seven Against Thebes 3 · 5.96/10k
- Phoenissae 2 · 2.07/10k
- Iliad 16 · 1.43/10k
- Electra 1 · 1.32/10k
- Odyssey 3 · 0.35/10k
What it meant — LSJ
2. σάκος · sakos
shield
shield, Il. 7.222, 18.478, 20.268, Hdt. 1.52, etc.: it was concave, and hence sts. used as a vessel to hold liquid, A. Th. 540.
2 shield, defence
metaph., shield, defence, βωμός, ἄρρηκτον σ. A. Supp. 190. (Prob. cogn. with Skt. tvác- ‘skin, hide’.)
In the wild
- σάκει · sakei Aeschylus, Seven Against Thebes 521–525
- σάκει · sakei Aeschylus, Seven Against Thebes 539–544
- σάκει · sakei Aeschylus, Seven Against Thebes 389–390
- σάκει · sakei Euripides, Electra 2 (DIORISIS sentence 256)
- σάκει · sakei Euripides, Phoenissae *)/aggelos (DIORISIS sentence 659)
- σάκει · sakei Euripides, Phoenissae *)/aggelos (DIORISIS sentence 657)
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Where it came from
- Treated in Beekes, Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Brill 2010) s.v. σάκος (scan p. 1353; entry #5382).
- Treated in Chantraine, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue grecque s.v. σάκος (scan p. 1005; entry #7059).
- Treated in Frisk, Griechisches etymologisches Worterbuch s.v. σάκος (scan p. 1644; entry #5039).