σανίς

σᾰνίς, ίδος, ἡ,

A board, plank, timber,

σ. πτελεΐνη IG12.313.133

, cf. 22.1672.168, Plb.1.22.9, AP9.269 (Antip. Thess.), Act.Ap.27.44, etc.;

σ. ἄξοος Call.Fr.105

:—hence anything made thereof,

1 door, Hom. always in pl., folding doors, Il.12.453,461, Od.22.128, etc.; κολληταὶ ς. Il.9.583;

σ. πυκινῶς ἀραρυῖαι, δικλίδες Od.2.344

, cf. Il.21.535; πύλῃσιν ἐπικεκλιμέναι ς. 12.121: rarely in sg., E.Or.1221.

2 wooden platform, scaffold, or stage, ἐφ' ὑψηλῆς ς. Od.21.51.

3 wooden floor, esp. ship's deck, E.Hel.1556, Archimel. ap. Ath.5.209c, Luc.JTr.48.

4 bench, seat, SIG244B61 (Delph., iv B.C.), Herod.7.5.

5 lid of box, v.l. in LXX 4 Ki.12.9.

6 in pl., wooden tablets for writing on, E.Alc.967 (lyr.): esp.at Athens and elsewh., tablets covered with gypsum, on which were written all sorts of public notices, esp. the causes for hearing in the law-courts, Ar.V.349,848; laws to be proposed, Decr. ap. And.1.84; laws corrected by the Thesmothetae, Aeschin.3.39; lists of officers, Lys.26.10; accounts, IG12.374.190; names of debtors, D.25.70 (in sg.), Isoc.15.237: sg. also in SIG 975.30 (Delos, iii B.C.); at Rome, of the tables on which the laws were written, D.C.42.32.

b pl., painted panels, pictures, SIG 977a10 (Delos, ii B.C.).

7 plank to which offenders were bound or nailed, ζῶντα πρὸς σανίδα διε- (v.l. προσδιε-)

πασσάλευσαν Hdt.7.33

;

σανίδι προσπασσαλεύσαντες Id.9.120

, cf. Cratin.341;

ἐν τῇ σ. δῆσαι, πρὸς τῇ σ. δεῖν Ar.Th.931

,940;

σανίσι προσδῆσαι Duris 67

J.