Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

σκαιός

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: σκαιός σκαιή σκαιόν

Structure: σκαι (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. side, with the left hand
  2. western, westward, auspex, had the west on his left;, the west gate, western
  3. unlucky, ill-omened, mischievous, appeared on the left or in the west
  4. gauche, lefthanded, awkward, clumsy

Examples

  • εἶτ’ οὐ δικαίωσ σε παρέτιλλεν ὁ Καρίων οὑτωσὶ σκαιὸν ὄντα; (Lucian, Cataplus, (no name) 13:14)
  • θηριῶδεσ γὰρ καὶ δεινῶσ σκαιὸν καὶ προσέτι γε ἀλυσιτελὲσ ἀποσφάττειν τοὺσ ἀρίστουσ καὶ οἷσ ἄν τισ ἄμεινον χρήσαιτο κατὰ τῶν δυσμενῶν. (Lucian, Anacharsis, (no name) 37:6)
  • ἐγὼ γὰρ οὐ τῶν ἀφανῶν ἐν Ἀκράγαντι ὤν, ἀλλ’ εἰ καί τισ ἄλλοσ εὖ γεγονὼσ καὶ τραφεὶσ ἐλευθερίωσ καὶ παιδείᾳ προσεσχηκώσ, ἀεὶ διετέλουν τῇ μὲν πόλει δημοτικὸν ἐμαυτὸν παρέχων, τοῖσ δὲ συμπολιτευομένοισ ἐπιεικῆ καὶ μέτριον, βίαιον δὲ ἢ σκαιὸν ἢ ὑβριστικὸν ἢ αὐθέκαστον οὐδεὶσ οὐδὲν ἐπεκάλει μου τῷ προτέρῳ ἐκείνῳ βίῳ. (Lucian, Phalaris, book 1 2:1)
  • σκαιόν γε τἀνάλωμα τῆσ γλώσσησ τόδε, φόβουσ πονηροὺσ καὶ κενοὺσ δεδοικέναι. (Euripides, Suppliants, episode 4:30)
  • σκαιὸν γάρ· (Lucian, Dialogi deorum, 6:4)

Synonyms

  1. side

  2. gauche

Related

Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.

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