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σάκος [α^], εος, τό, Ion. gen.
A.“σάκευς” Hes.Sc.334 (Cretan word acc. to AB1096):—shield, Il.7.222, 18.478, 20.268, Hdt.1.52, etc.: it was concave, and hence sts. used as a vessel to hold liquid, A.Th. 540.
2. metaph., shield, defence, βωμός, ἄρρηκτον ς. A.Supp.190. (Prob. cogn. with Skt. tvác- 'skin, hide'.)
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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  • Cross-references in general dictionaries from this page (7):
    • Aeschylus, Seven Against Thebes, 540
    • Aeschylus, Suppliant Maidens, 190
    • Herodotus, Histories, 1.52
    • Hesiod, Shield of Heracles, 334
    • Homer, Iliad, 20.268
    • Homer, Iliad, 7.222
    • Homer, Iliad, 18.478
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