σηκ-ός
(neuter plural σῆκα (which see) as adverb), Doric dialectσᾱκός [[(“IG” 42(1).102.29 (Epid., 4th c.BC))] Refs 4th c.BC+], ὁ, pen, fold, especially for rearing lambs, kids, calves, [[ 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 9.219, 227, 319, 439, 10.412, 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 18.589, 8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus “Opera et Dies” 787 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; εἰς τὸν σ. οἴσουσιν, metaphorically of young children, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 460c; σηκὸν νομίζειν τὸ τεῖχος [prev. author] “Tht.” 174e ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; σ. δράκοντος the dragon's den, [[ 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Phoenissae” 1010 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; οἱ πέρδικες δύο ποιοῦνται τῶν ᾠῶν σ. nests, [[ 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Historia Animalium” 564a21. ] Refs 4th c.BC+]
__II sacred enclosure, precinct, [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 4.62 (variant), 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Philoctetes” 1328, 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus (see. below), “IG” [same place], “SIG” 247 K 1 1155 (Delph., 4th c.BC), 3rd c.BC: Maiistas Epicus 23, LXX.2Mac.14.33; ὁ σ. τοῦ ἱεροῦ “OGI” 702.4 (Egypt, 2nd c.AD): _accusative_ to 1st-2nd c.AD: Ammonius Grammaticus “περὶ ὁμοίων καὶ διαφόρων λέξεων” p.94 V. (compare 3rd c.BC: Callimachus Epicus “Fragmenta” 38P. (cited in Scholia Oxy. 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 2.17), 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Cimon” 8, “epigram Gr.” 781.7 (from Cnidus)), the σηκός was sacred to a hero, the ναός] LXX+5th c.BC+] to a god, a distinction not observed (see. [[ 2nd c.AD(?): Pollianus Epigrammaticus 1.6) by the Poets,compare “Tragica Adespota” 424, 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Phoenissae” 1751 (Lyric poetry), “Rh.” 501, with “Ion” 300, etc. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]