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Σκύθ-ης , ου, ὁ: voc.
A.“Σκύθα^” Thgn.829, Ar.Th.1112, etc.:—Scythian, first in Hes. Fr.55: prov., Σκυθῶν ἐρημία, of a desert, Ar.Ach.704: metaph., rude, rough person, ἐν λόγοις Σ. Plu.2.847f, cf. Men.533.13.
2. Adj. Scythian, “Σ. ἐς οἷμον” A.Pr.2; Σ. ὅμιλος ib.417 (lyr.); “σίδηρος” Id.Th. 818 (cf. Χάλυψ）“; κύανος” Thphr.Lap.55.
II. at Athens, one of the city police, which was mainly composed of Scythian slaves, Ar.Th. 1018,1026, Lys.451; cf. “τοξότης” 111.
2. = ἱπποτοξότης, Ael. Tact.2.13.
Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. A Greek-English Lexicon. revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones. with the assistance of. Roderick McKenzie. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1940.

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