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σα^γή , ἡ, a man's
A.pack, baggage, αὐτόφορτος οἰκεία σαγῇ, i.e. carrying his own baggage, etc., A.Ch.675; scrip, wallet, knapsack, Ion Trag.7: then, generally, harness, furniture, equipment, “παντελῆ σαγὴν ἔχων” A.Ch.560, cf. E.Rh.207; τοξήρης ς. Id.HF188; esp. armour, harness, S.Fr.1092 (prob.), cf. Ar.Fr.848, Men.1061, LXX 2 Ma.3.25; also in pl., “φεράσπιδες σαγαί” A.Pers.240 (troch.), cf. Th. 125 (lyr.), 391.
II. later,= “σάγμα” 11, pack-saddle, PGoodsp.Cair.30 xxxviii 16 (ii A.D.), Babr.7.12, Poll.1.185, 10.54; “καμήλου” J.AJ1.19.10; also the padding of a saddle, Str.15.1.20. (From σάττω: hence πανσαγία or πασσαγία.—On the accent, v. Hdn.Gr.1.309.)
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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