- σάκκος
- σάκκος or [full] σάκος, ὁ, v. sub fin.:—A coarse cloth of hair, esp. of goats' hair,
σάκκος τρίχινος Apoc.6.12
, cf. LXX Is.50.3, Si.25.17.II anything made of this cloth:1 sack, bag, Hdt.9.80, Ar.Ach.745, Lys.1209, Gal.2.559,8.672:—as a measure, Ostr.1096, al.2 sieve, strainer, esp. for wine, Hippon.57, Poll.6.19;σ. τρίχινοι PHamb.10.39
(ii A.D.).3 coarse garment, sackcloth, worn as mourning by the Jews, LXX Ge.37.34, Ev.Luc.10.13, J.BJ2.12.5, cf. Plu.2.239c.III coarse beard, like rough hair-cloth,σάκον πρὸς ταῖν γνάθοιν ἔχειν Ar.Ec.502
; cf.σακεσφόρος 11
.—The form σάκος is said to be [dialect] Att., Ael.Dion.Fr.296, Phryn.229, Moer. p.354 P., Thom.Mag. p.344 R., etc.; while σάκκος is called [dialect] Dor. by Phryn. l.c., Hellenic by Moer. and Thom.Mag. ll.cc., Comic by Poll.7.191. In Ar.Ach. 822, Ec.502, σάκος is required by the metre, as is σάκκος in Ach. 745 ([place name] Megarian), and in Hippon. l.c.; codd. of Hdt. give σάκκος. Inscrr. haveσάκος IG22.1672.73
,74, 108 and σάκκος ib.198: Papyri haveσάκος PCair.Zen.753.27
(iii B.C.), UPZ84.52 (ii B.C.), but oftenerσάκκος PSI4.427.1
,14 (iii B.C.), PTeb.116.3 (ii B.C.), etc. (Prob. the word, like the thing, was borrowed from Phoenicia, cf. Hebr. saq.)
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