A.shadow, Od.11.207; σκιὰ ἀντίστοιχος ὥς like the shadow that is one's double, E.Andr.745; “ὑπὸ κίονος σκιὰν ἔπτηξεν” Id.HF973: prov., “τὴν αὑτοῦ ς. δέδοικεν” Ar.Fr.77, cf. Pl.Phd.101d.
2. reflection, image (in a bowl of oil), Sch.Il.17.755.
3. shade of one dead, phantom, Od.10.495, A.Th.992 (lyr.), S.Aj.1257; “σποδόν τε καὶ σκιάν” Id.El.1159; κατθανὼν δὲ πᾶς ἀνὴρ γῆ καὶ ς. E.Fr.532; “σκιᾷ τινι λόγους ἀνέσπα” S.Aj.301; also, of one worn to a shadow, A.Eu.302; κακωθεὶς δ᾽ οὐδὲν ἄλλ᾽ εἰμ᾽ ἢ ς. Id.Niob. in Bull.Soc.Alex.No.28p.110; “φωνὴ καὶ ς. γέρων ἀνήρ” E.Fr.509: freq. in proverbs of man's mortal estate, “σκιᾶς ὄναρ ἄνθρωπος” Pi.P.8.95; “εἴδωλον σκιᾶς” A.Ag.839, cf. S.Fr.659.6; ὁρῶ γὰρ ἡμᾶς οὐδὲν ἄλλο πλὴν εἴδωλα . . ἢ κούφην ς. Id.Aj.126; “ἄνθρωπός ἐστι πνεῦμα καὶ ς. μόνον” Id.Fr.13; “οὐδέν ἐσμεν πλὴν σκιαῖς ἐοικότες” Id.Fr.945; of human affairs, “εὐτυχοῦντα μὲν σκιᾷ τις ἂν πρέψειεν” A.Ag.1328 (dub.l.); οὐδὲν μᾶλλον ἢ καπνοῦ ς. Id.Fr.399; “καπνοῦ σκιὰν δέδοικεν” Com.Adesp.692; of worthless things, “τἄλλ᾽ ἐγὼ καπνοῦ σκιᾶς οὐκ ἂν πριαίμην” S.Ant. 1170, cf. Ph.946; “καπνοὺς καὶ σκιάς” Eup.51; “ὅσ᾽ ἂν γένηται ταῦτα πάντ᾽ ὄνου σκιά” S.Fr.331; περὶ ὄνου σκιᾶς [μάχεσθαι] Ar.V.191, cf. Pl.Phdr.260c; Archipp. wrote a Com. entitled Ὄνου σκιά; ἡ ἐν Δελφοῖς ς. that phantom at Delphi, of the Amphictyonic council, D.5.25; αἱ τοῦ δικαίου ς. mere shadows of . ., Pl.R.517d; σκιαὶ καὶ ἐν ὕδασιν εἰκόνες ib.510e; σκιαὶ τῶν ὄντων, ἀλλ᾽ οὐκ εἰδώλων ς. ib.532c; “στιγμὴ ἢ ς. τούτων” D.21.115; “ἂν ἔχῃ φίλου σκιάν” Men. 554.
4. evil spirit, Hippiatr.130, PMasp.188.5 (vi A.D.).
II. shade of trees, etc., as a protection from heat, πετραίη τε σκιή the shade of a rock, Hes.Op.589; ἐν σκιῇ ἑζόμενος ib.593; “ἐν συμμιγεῖ σκιᾷ” Pl.Phdr.239c; “εἰ ὑπὸ σκιῇ ἔσοιτο ἡ μάχη” Hdt.7.226; “ὑπὸ σκιᾶς” E.Ba.458; “εἰσελθὼν ὑπὸ τὴν σκιὰν καθέζεσθαι” And.1.38; “θέρους σκιὰν παρέχειν” Pl.Ti.76d; ἐν σκιᾷ, i.e. indoors, X.Smp.2.18, cf. Cyn.3.3; σκιὰν ὑπερτείνασα Σειρίου κυνός shade from its heat, A.Ag.967: pl., αἱ τῶν δένδρων, αἱ τῶν πετρῶν ς., X.Cyr.8.8.17; “ὑπὸ σκιαῖς” Id.Oec.20.18, cf. 5.9.
III. shadow in painting, “τὰ λαμπρὰ τῇ σκιᾷ τρανότερα ποιοῦσι” Plu.2.863e, cf. 407a, D.H.Is.4, Longin.17.3; ἀνθρώπων πρῶτος ἐξευρὼν φθορὰν καὶ ἀπόχρωσιν σκιᾶς, of the painter Apollodorus, Plu.2.346a, cf. Hsch.
3. perh. coloured border on a garment, “καλάσηριν ἢ ὑπόδυμα μὴ ἔχον σκιάς” IG5(1).1390.19, cf. 24 (Andania, i B.C.), cf. Men.561, BGU1141.41,43 (i B.C.).
IV. an uninvited guest, introduced by another (Lat. umbra), Plu.2.707a, Ael.Fr.110. (Cf. Skt. chāyā´ 'shadow'.)
