A.dug: that may be dug:—Σκαπτὴ Ὕλη a district in Thrace, named after a forest, “ἐκ Σκαπτῆς Γ̔́λης” Hdt.6.46; “ἐν τῇ Σ. Γ̔́λῃ” Plu.Cim.4; ἐν Σ. Γ̔́. Marcellin.Vit. Thuc.25, 47:—the form Σκαπτησύλης (gen. sg.) is found in Thphr.Lap.17; nom. “Σκαπτησύλη” St.Byz.; Lat. Scaptens[ucaron]la Lucr.6.810:—hence
σκαπτός , ή, όν, (σκάπτω)
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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