STEP Liddell–Scott–Jones: σανίς

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plank

σᾰνίς, ίδος, ἡ,

board, plank, timber, σ. πτελεΐνη [[ “IG” 12.313.133, compare 22.1672.168, 2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 1.22.9, “Anthologia Graeca” 9.269 (Antip. Thess.), NT.Act.27.44, etc.; σ. ἄξοος 3rd c.BC: Callimachus Epicus “Fragmenta” 105 ] NT+3rd c.BC+]:—hence anything made thereof,

__1 door, [[ 8th c.BC: Homerus Epicus ] Refs 8th c.BC+] always in plural, folding doors, [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 12.453, 461, 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 22.128, etc.] Refs 8th c.BC+]; κολληταὶ σ. [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 9.583; σ. πυκινῶς ἀραρυῖαι, δικλίδες 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 2.344, compare 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 21.535; πύλῃσιν ἐπικεκλιμέναι σ. 12.121 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]: rarely in singular, [[ 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Orestes” 1221. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]

__2 wooden platform, scaffold, or stage, ἐφ᾽ ὑψηλῆς σ. [[ 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 21.51. ] Refs 8th c.BC+]

__3 wooden floor, especially ship's deck, [[ 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Helena” 1556, 3rd c.BC: Archimelus Epigrammaticus cited in 2nd c.AD: Athenaeus Epigrammaticus 5.209c, 2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “JTr.” 48. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]

__4 bench, seat, [[ “SIG” 244 B 61 (Delph., 4th c.BC), 3rd c.BC: Herodas Mimographus 7.5. ] Refs 4th c.BC+]

__5 lid of box, variant in [[ LXX.2Ki.12.9. ] LXX]

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__6 in plural, wooden tablets for writing on, [[ 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Alcestis” 967 (Lyric poetry)] Refs 5th c.BC+]: especiallyat Athens and elsewhere, tablets covered with gypsum, on which were written all sorts of public notices, especially the causes for hearing in the law-courts, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Vespae” 349, 848 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; laws to be proposed, Decrees cited in [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Andocides Orator 1.84 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; laws corrected by the Thesmothetae, [[ 4th c.BC: Aeschines Orator 3.39 ] Refs 4th c.BC+]; lists of officers, [[ 5th c.BC: Lysias Orator 26.10; accounts, “IG” 12.374.190] Refs 5th c.BC+]; names of debtors, [[ 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 25.70 (in _sing._), 5th-6th c.BC: Isocrates Orator 15.237: _sing._ also in “SIG” 975.30 (Delos, 3rd c.BC)] Refs 5th c.BC+]; at Rome, of the tables on which the laws were written, [[ 2nd-3rd c.AD: Dio Cassius Historicus 42.32. ] Refs 2nd c.AD+]

__6.b plural, painted panels, pictures, [[ “SIG” 977a10 (Delos, 2nd c.BC). ] Refs 2nd c.BC+]

__7 plank to which offenders were bound or nailed, ζῶντα πρὸς σανίδα διε- (variant{προσδιε-}) πασσάλευσαν [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 7.33; σανίδι προσπασσαλεύσαντες [prev. author] 9.120, compare 5th c.BC: Cratinus Comicus 341; ἐν τῇ σ. δῆσαι, πρὸς τῇ σ. δεῖν 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Thesmophoriazusae” 931, 940; σανίσι προσδῆσαι 4th-3rd c.BC: Duris Epigrammaticus 67 1st c.AD: Josephus Historicus ] Refs 5th c.BC+]