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σκιερός or (less freq.) σκια^ρός , ά, όν, (σκιά)
A.shady, giving shade, “ἐν νέμεϊ σκιερῷ” Il.11.480; “ἄλσος ὕπο σκιερόν” Od.20.278; “σκιαρόν τε φύτευμα” Pi.O.3.18; “σκιεροῖσιν ὑφ᾽ ἕρνεσιν” Ibyc.1.5; “σκιερᾷ δάφνᾳ” E.IT1246 (lyr.); “ὦ σκιερὰ φυλλάς” Id.Fr.308 (anap.); “ὄρος σκιερόν” Ar.Av.349(lyr.); σκιεροῖσι πόθοισι longings for the shade, Opp.H.4.438.
2. shady, in the shade, “σκιεροὺς θώκους” Hes.Op.574; “ἀπὸ σκιαρᾶν παγᾶν” Pi.O.3.14; “ἀνάπαυλαι σκιαραί” Pl.Lg.625b.
3. dark-coloured, Gal.17(1).655; “τὸ ς. μέλαν φαίνεται” Arist.Col.791a23; “σκιερῆς ἄνθος ὀπώρης” AP6.154 (Leon. or Gaet.); “φρίκῃ ς. θάλαττα” Alciphr.1.17; “κεῖται ὑπὸ σκιερὰν Σύρου κόνιν” IG12(5).675.5 (Syros), etc.
4. faint, “ἀστήρ” Vett.Val. 6.9.
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 (6):
    • Aristophanes, Birds, 349
    • Euripides, Iphigeneia in Taurus, 1246
    • Hesiod, Works and Days, 574
    • Homer, Odyssey, 20.278
    • Plato, Laws, 625b
    • Homer, Iliad, 11.480
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