A.skin, hide, esp. dressed or tanned hide, Od.14.34, Hp.Art.33, Ar.Eq.868; ὁ νοῦς γὰρ ἡμῶν ἦν τότ᾽ ἐν τοῖς σκύτεσι (with a reference to Cleon the tanner) Id.Pax669; “εἰ ἐμβάται γένοιντο σκύτους” X.Eq.12.10; “τῶν σκυτῶν ῥυτίδες” Pl.Smp.191a; “σκυτῶν τομή” Id.Chrm.173d.
II. leather thong, whip, D.21.180, Plu.Pomp.18, etc.; σκύτη βλέπειν to look like a whipped cur, Eup.282, Ar.V. 643; “ς. τέμνειν εἰς νουθεσίαν ἀνθρώπων ἀφρόνων” Socr.Ep.12. (Cf. Skt. skunomi 'cover', Lat. ob-scū-rus.) [σκύτος with υ^ occurs in codd.; but in Ar.Pl.514 Bentl. restored σκυ^λοδεψεῖν; so in Theoc. 25.142 σκύλος is the better reading, and in Lyc.1316 Scheer conjectures σκύλος.]
