A.“σκήπτω” 1.2) pretext, plea, excuse, “τοιάδε μέντοι ς. οὐ δόλον φέρει” A.Ag.886; “μὴ ς. οὐκ οὖσαν τίθης” S.El.584: c. gen., κατὰ φόνου τινὰ ς. pleading some murder as an excuse, Hdt.1.147; ς. τοῦ μὴ τὰ δέοντα ποιεῖν a plea, excuse for not doing, D.1.6; ς. ἡ νόσος . . ἔδοξεν pretence, Luc.Merc.Cond.31; σκῆψιν ποιεῖσθαί τι to use as an excuse, Hdt.5.30; “πρὸς Ἕλληνάς σφι ς. ἐπεποίητο” Id.7.168; “ἔχω ς. εὐπρεπεστάτην” Id.3.72; ἐς ἄνδρα ς. εἶχ᾽ ὀλωλότα (sc. τὰ τέκνα) E.El.29; ς. προτείνειν, δεικνύναι, ib.1067, Med.744; “φέρειν” PCair.Zen.110.5 (iii B.C., Pl.); “τοῖς νέοις σκῆψιν φέρει” E.IT122; “σκήψεις καὶ προφάσεις ἐρεῖ” D.19.100; opp. ς. ἐσδέχεσθαι, Ar.Ach.392; “ς. παραδέχεσθαι” Hyp.Eux.7; “εὑρίσκειν” D.21.81; “διδόναι” Arist. Top. 131b11; προβαλέσθαι, πορίσασθαι, etc., Plb.5.56.7, 5.2.9, etc.: acc. as Adv., “σκῆψιν . . ἐλήλυμεν, ὡς . . ” Cratin.235.
σκῆψις , εως, ἡ, (
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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