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σκοτειν-ός , ή, όν, (σκότος)
A.dark, νυκτὸς ἅρμ᾽ ἐπείγεται ς. A.Ch.661; ς. τῶν ἐνερτέρων βέλος ib.285; ς. περιβολαί, of a scabbard, E.Ph.276; [ὁδοί] X.Cyn.6.5; “τὰ ς. θεάσασθαι” Pl.R.520c; ἀνὰ τὸ ς. προϊδεῖν in the darkness, Th.3.22; of a person, blind, καίπερ ς. S.OT1326; “ς. ὄμμα” E.Alc.385; τὰ ς. the dark shadows in a picture, X.Mem.3.10.1, Plu.2.57c: neut. as Adv., σκοτεινὸν ζῆν to live in privacy, Pl.Lg. 781c.
II. metaph., dark, obscure, opp. ἐλλόγιμος καὶ φανός, Id.Smp.197a; “τόπος ς. καὶ δυσδιερεύνητος” Id.R.432c; Heraclitus was called ὁ σκοτεινός, Arist.Mu.396b20, Cic.Fin.2.5.15; “ς. προοίμιον” Aeschin.2.34; ς. ἀκοαί obscure reports, Pl.Criti.109e; ς. μηχανήματα dark, secret, E.Fr.288; “ὁρκάναι” Id.Ba.611; “σκοτεινὸς ὀργήν” Trag.Adesp.345, cf. Procop.Arc.1. Adv., “-νῶς διαλέγεσθαι” Pl.R.558d, cf. D.H.Th.32.
III. prob. f.l. for κοτ- in Pi.N.7.61.
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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