The corpus record

Σκύθ-ης

*skuthes · ὁ

Scythian, rude, rough person, one of the city police

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Where it lives

De aere aquis et locis 10 · 13.5/10k
Histories 230 · 12.53/10k
Thesmophoriazusae 7 · 9.95/10k
Colossians 1 · 6.46/10k
Prometheus Bound 3 · 5.1/10k
Rhesus 2 · 3.72/10k
Against Phormio 1 · 3.09/10k
Laches 2 · 2.61/10k
Lysistrata 2 · 2.52/10k
Menexenus 1 · 2.08/10k
Seven Against Thebes 1 · 1.99/10k
Machabaeourum III 1 · 1.99/10k

Densest 12 of 35 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

Σκύθ-ης · Skyth-ēs — LSJ

Scythian, rude, rough person

Scythian, first in Hes. Fr. 55: prov., Σκυθῶν ἐρημία, of a desert, Ar. Ach. 704: metaph., rude, rough person, ἐν λόγοις Σ. Plu. VOrat. 2.847f, cf. Men. 533.13.

2 Scythian

Adj. Scythian, Σ. ἐς οἷμον A. Pr. 2; Σ. ὅμιλος ib. 417 (lyr.); σίδηρος Id. Th. 818 (cf. Χάλυψ) ; κύανος Thphr. Lap. 55.

II one of the city police

at Athens, one of the city police, which was mainly composed of Scythian slaves, Ar. Th. 1018, 1026, Lys. 451; cf. τοξότης III.

= ἱπποτοξότης, Ael. Tact. 2.13.

In the wild

Σκύθῃσιν · Skythēisin Aeschylus, Eumenides 700–703
Σκύθην · Skythēn Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound 1–2
Σκύθης · Skythēs Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound 415–428
Σκύθας · Skythas Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound 709–711
Σκύθῃ · Skythēi Aeschylus, Seven Against Thebes 815–817
Σκυθῶν · Skythōn Aristophanes, Acharnians (DIORISIS sentence 512)

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Where it came from

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