A.leathern, made of leather, “μάστιξ” Anacr.21.10; ἀναξυρίδες, ἐσθής, σκευή, Hdt.1.71, 4.189, 7.71; “πλοῖα” Id.1.194; “ἁμαξίδες” Ar.Nu.880; “χύτρα” Crates Com.29; “ὑποκεφάλαιον” Hp.Art.30; “κράνη” X.An.5.4.13; σκύτινον καθειμένον a leathern phallus, Ar.Nu.538 (v.l. -ίον); so “σκυτίνη ἐπικουρία” Id.Lys. 110; a phrase which is used by Strattis (Fr.54) to denote the feebleness of Sannyrio; prob. both writers meant to pun upon the proverb συκίνη ἐπικουρία, v. σύκινος.
σκυ?τ-ι^νος , η, ον,
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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