II. Hom. only in Med., δὸς δέ μοι [ῥόπαλον], . . σκηρίπτεσθ᾽ to support myself withal, Od.17.196; σκηριπτόμενος χερσίν τε ποσίν τε pressing, pushing against it, with hands and feet, 11.595; so φρίκη ἐν ῥέθεϊ ς. Nic. Th.721; “ἐπί τινος” Ph.2.274; βακτηρίᾳ ib.317: abs., πῦρ σκηριπτόμενον ὀρθοῦται sustained, ib.512. (Found only in pres.; formed by assimilation of σκήπτω (Ep. only in pres.) to ἐστήρικτο, στηρίξασθαι, etc. (Ep. only in tenses other than pres.).)
σκηρίπτω ,
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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