A.covering, shelter, protection, Hp.VM16; “ς. ἄκαπνος” Id.Acut.65; of clothes, Id.Aër.8; of arms, Plb.6.22.3, etc.; of the flesh as the covering of bones, Ti.Locr.100b; of the hair, “σκέπης χάριν αἱ τρίχες” Arist. PA658a18; δεῖσθαι σκέπης ib.20; “ς. δερματική” Id.GA719b4; ς. φλοιῶτις,= φλοιός, Lyc. 1422.
II. shelter, protection, τὰ δεόμενα σκέπης the parts of the body needing protection, X.Mem.3.10.9; “σκιὰν καὶ ς. παρέχειν” Pl. Ti.76d; “ἐν σκέπῃ εἶναι” Arist.PA689b29; “ς. ἔχειν” D.S.5.65.
2. c. gen., ς. πνευμάτων shelter from them, Hp. Aër.3; so “ἐν σκέπῃ τοῦ πολέμου” Hdt.7.172,215; “τοῦ φόβου” Id.1.143; “τοῦ κρύους” Ael.NA9.57: but ὑποστέλλειν ἑαυτὸν ὑπὸ τὴν Ῥωμαίων ς. under their protection, Plb. 1.16.10; ὄντα αὐτοῦ ὑπὸ σκέπην being under his protection, PTeb.34.12 (ii/i B.C.); ἀντέχεσθαι τῆς σῆς ς. ib.40.9 (ii B.C.); ἔξω ἱεροῦ . . καὶ πάσης ς. Sammelb.5680.19 (iii B.C.), cf. PHib.1.93.5 (iii B.C.).