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σκολιός

skolios

curved, bent

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Where it lives

Works and Days 8 · 13.88/10k
Proverbia 11 · 9.9/10k
Philippians 1 · 6.26/10k
1 Peter 1 · 5.8/10k
Sapientia Salomonis 3 · 4.35/10k
Osee 1 · 2.65/10k
Odae 1 · 2.46/10k
Gorgias 4 · 1.52/10k
Job 2 · 1.5/10k
Hecuba 1 · 1.4/10k
Athenian Constitution 2 · 1.23/10k
Isaias 3 · 1.14/10k

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

What it meant

σκολιός · skolios — LSJ

curved, bent, winding, twisted, tangled

curved, bent (opp. ὀρθός, εὐθύς), σ. σίδηρος Hdt. 2.86; σ. σκίπωνι E. Hec. 65 (anap.); of rivers and paths, winding, ποταμός Hdt. 1.185, cf. 2.29; Μαίανδρος σ. εἰς ὑπερβολήν Str. 12.8.15; οἶμος, ἀτραπός, etc., A.R. 4.1541, Nic. Th. 478, etc.; ῥηγμῖνες Arist. Mete. 367b14; λαβύρινθος Call. Del. 311; πλέγμα ἕλικος AP 7.24 (Simon.); πλοκαμῖδες Nonn. D. 14.182; twisted, tangled, βάτος AP 7.315 (Zenod. or Rhian.), cf. 11.33 (Phil.); ἐς τὸ σ. Hp. Art. 37.

2 bent sideways, crooked made, going askew

bent sideways, δουλείη κεφαλή, σκολιή Thgn. 536; γένυες Pi. Fr. 203; ἵππος σ. crooked made or going askew, Pl. Phdr. 253d.

II crooked, unjust, unrighteous, riddling, obscure, the crooked one, indirect methods

metaph., crooked, i.e. unjust, unrighteous, θέμιστες Il. 16.387; μῦθοι, δίκαι, Hes. Op. 194, 221; αἰ σκολιὰν (sc. ῥήτραν) ὁ δᾶμος ἕλοιτο, Spartan law ap. Plu. Lyc. 6; λόγος Thgn. 1147; ἀπάται Pi. Fr. 213; πατέων ὁδοῖς σκολιαῖς Id. P. 2.85; riddling, obscure, ῥημάτια Luc. Bis Acc. 16; τὸ σ. τῆς εἰσόδου (into true science) Vett.Val. 250.23: rarely of men, ἰθύνει σκολιόν makes the crooked one straight, Hes. Op. 7; σ. καὶ φοβερός Plu. Vind. 2.551f: with Verbs, σκολιὰ φρονεῖν, opp. εὐθὺς ἔμμεν, Scol.

III intestine

σκολιόν, τό, intestine, σπλάγχανα καὶ νεφρὸν καὶ σκολιόν SIG 1002.5 (Milet., v/iv B.C.), cf. Schwyzer 721.23 (Mycale, iv B.C.), al.

In the wild

σκολιοῖς · skoliois Aristotle, Athenian Constitution Ath. Pol..19 (DIORISIS sentence 240)
σκολιοῖς · skoliois Aristotle, Athenian Constitution Ath. Pol..20 (DIORISIS sentence 257)
σκολιῶν · skoliōn Aristotle, Politics 1285a (DIORISIS sentence 1275)
σκολιάς · skolias Demosthenes, On the False Embassy Concl.255 (DIORISIS sentence 906)
σκολιῷ · skoliōi Euripides, Hecuba 65 (DIORISIS sentence 25)
σκολιὸν · skolion Herodotus, Histories 1.185.2 (DIORISIS sentence 1300)

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Where it came from

Chantraine, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue grecque Treated in Chantraine, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue grecque s.v. σκολιός (scan p. 1040; entry #7367).
Frisk, Griechisches etymologisches Worterbuch Treated in Frisk, Griechisches etymologisches Worterbuch s.v. σκολιός (scan p. 1707; entry #5214).

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