σκην-ή,
Doric dialect σκᾱνά, ἡ (not in [[ 8th c.BC: Homerus Epicus, who uses κλισίη (which see))] Refs 8th c.BC+].
__I tent, booth, [[ Inscriptiones Graecae 12.314.110, 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Hecuba” 1289; ἐπὶ σκηναῖς.. ναυτικαῖς 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Ajax” 3; σκηνῆς ἔνδον [prev. work] 218 (_anapaest meter_); ὑπὸ σκηναῖσι [prev. work] 754 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; σκηνῆς ὕπαυλος[[ [prev. work] 796; σκηνὴν ποιήσαντες 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 2.34; πηξάμενοι 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 6.12, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Andocides Orator 4.30; ἵστασθαι 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 8.5.3 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; τὰς σ. καταλύειν, διαλύειν, strike camp, [[ 2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 6.40.2, 2nd c.AD: Pausanias Periegeta 10.25.3; σ. δερματίνη “PCair.Zen.” 13.14 (3rd c.BC)] Refs 3rd c.BC+]; but also σ. μάλα ἰσχυρῶν ξύλων hut, [[ 1st-2nd c.AD: Dio Chrysostomus Sophista 7.23 ] Refs 1st c.AD+]; booth in the marketplace, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Thesmophoriazusae” 658, 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 18.169 (both _plural_), 3rd c.BC: Theocritus Poeta Bucolicus 15.16; σκανὰν ἐμ Πυλαίᾳ τὰν πρώταν ὑπάρχειν αὐτῷ “SIG” 422.11 (Delph., 3rd c.BC)] Refs 5th c.BC+]: plural, camp, [[ 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Eumenides” 686, 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Pax” 731, 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 3.5.7. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__I.2 σκηνὰς ἐς ἱεράς to the holy tabernacle, [[ 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Ion” 806, compare 1129, LXX.Exo.26.1, +others ] LXX+5th c.BC+]
__II stage-building as background for plays, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 817c, 2nd c.AD(?): Pollianus Epigrammaticus 4.123 ff., 1st c.BC: Vitruvius Scriptor de Architectura Latinus 5.6.1; τῆς σ. τὸ τέγος “IG” 11(2).161 A 115, cf. D 127 (Delos, 3rd c.BC), 153.14 ([prev. passage])] Refs 5th c.BC+]; τραγικὴ σ. a sort of πῆγμα, such as that from which the prologue of [[ 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Ag.” is perhaps spoken, 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 6.1.54, 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Demetrius” 44, 10th c.AD: Suidas Legal icographus see at {τραγικὴ σ}. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]