A.“-αος” Arat.857: τό: (σκέπω):—covering, shelter, Hom., only in Od.; κὰδ δ᾽ ἄρ᾽ Ὀδυσσῆ᾽ εἷσαν ἐπὶ σκέπας placed him in or under shelter, 6.212, cf. 210; ς. ἀνέμοιο shelter from the wind, 5.443, 12.336: abs. in poet. nom. and acc. pl. σκέπα^, Hes.Op.532; “σκέπας ὅρμων” Lyc.736; of clothes, χλαίνης λιτὸν ς. AP9.43 (Parmen.); of the Maced. hat (καυσία), ib.6.335 (Antip. Thess.): pl., “ζωσάμενοι σκέπασι λινοῖς” Porph.Abst.4.12 codd. (σκεπάσμασι is prob. l.): metaph. in sg., pretext, pretence, E.Antiop. iv B 2 Arnim.—In Prose commonly σκέπη (q.v.), or σκέπασμα.
σκέπ-ας , gen.
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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