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σκέπ-η

skepe

enfin Paus

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Where it lives

Epistula Jeremiae 1 · 7.94/10k
Osee 2 · 5.31/10k
Canticum 1 · 5.14/10k
Siracides 5 · 2.71/10k
Fragments 1 · 2.51/10k
Isaias 6 · 2.28/10k
Job 3 · 2.25/10k
Machabaeourum III 1 · 1.99/10k
Esther 1 · 1.81/10k
Psalmi 6 · 1.75/10k
Works and Days 1 · 1.73/10k
Machabaeorum II 2 · 1.73/10k

Densest 12 of 26 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

1. σκέπῃ · skepēi — Chantraine

σκέπῃ; enfin Paus. Gr. p. 171 (Erbse). Forme à à rodoubie_! : : Si l'on pose ἔνρυξῆχι on peut rapprocher un. groups balto-mave de même sens : lit. nerid, nérti «plonger», ἡ v. sl vüniroe, -nréti « pénétrer dans», etc. Voir Frisk, ÆEranos 40, 1942, 81-83, qui évoque aussi, mais avec des points d'interrogation νηρίδας, Νηρεύς, et Pokorny 766.. Sévvos : m. «insulte, parole outrageante » (p.-8. Archil. 66 [corr. pour … — [Chantraine, s.v. σκέπῃ, p. 277]

2. σκέπ-η · skep-ē — LSJ

covering, shelter, protection, the covering

= σκέπας, covering, shelter, protection, Hp. VM 16; σ. ἄκαπνος Id. Acut. 65; of clothes, Id. Aër. 8; of arms, Plb. 6.22.3, etc.; of the flesh as the covering of bones, Ti.Locr. 100b; of the hair, σκέπης χάριν αἱ τρίχες Arist. PA 658a18; δεῖσθαι σκέπης ib. 20; σ. δερματική Id. GA 719b4; σ. φλοιῶτις,= φλοιός, Lyc. 1422.

II shelter, protection, protection

shelter, protection, τὰ δεόμενα σκέπης the parts of the body needing protection, X. Mem. 3.10.9; σκιὰν καὶ σ. παρέχειν Pl. Ti. 76d; ἐν σκέπῃ εἶναι Arist. PA 689b29; σ. ἔχειν D.S. 5.65.

2 shelter from, protection, protection

c. gen., σ. πνευμάτων shelter from them, Hp. Aër. 3; so ἐν σκέπῃ τοῦ πολέμου Hdt. 7.172, 215; τοῦ φόβου Id. 1.143; τοῦ κρύους Ael. NA 9.57: but ὑποστέλλειν ἑαυτὸν ὑπὸ τὴν Ῥωμαίων σ. under their protection, Plb. 1.16.10; ὄντα αὐτοῦ ὑπὸ σκέπην being under his protection, PTeb. 34.12 (ii/i B.C.); ἀντέχεσθαι τῆς σῆς σ. ib. 40.9 (ii B.C.); ἔξω ἱεροῦ . . καὶ πάσης σ. Sammelb. 5680.19 (iii B.C.), cf. PHib. 1.93.5 (iii B.C.).

In the wild

σκέπην · skepēn Aristotle, De Sensu et Sensibilibus (DIORISIS sentence 36)
σκέπαις · skepais Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers 6.9 (DIORISIS sentence 5471)
σκέπην · skepēn Epictetus, Discourses 2.22 (DIORISIS sentence 3349)
σκέπῃ · skepēi Epictetus, Fragments (DIORISIS sentence 208)
σκέπῃ · skepēi Herodotus, Histories 1.143.1 (DIORISIS sentence 1041)
σκέπῃ · skepēi Herodotus, Histories 7.172.2 (DIORISIS sentence 8065)

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