σκῐά, ᾶς,
Ionic dialect σκῐή, ῆς, ἡ, shadow, [[ 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 11.207 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; σκιὰ ἀντίστοιχος ὥς like the shadow that is one's double, [[ 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Andromache” 745; ὑπὸ κίονος σκιὰν ἔπτηξεν [prev. author] “HF” 973: proverbial, τὴν αὑτοῦ σ. δέδοικεν 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Fragmenta” 77, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Phaedo” 101d. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__2 reflection, image (in a bowl of oil), [[Scholia 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 17.755. ] Refs 8th c.BC+]
__3 shade of one dead, phantom, [[ 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 10.495, 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Septem contra Thebas” 992 (Lyric poetry), 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Ajax” 1257; σποδόν τε καὶ σκιάν [prev. author] “El.” 1159 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; κατθανὼν δὲ πᾶς ἀνὴρ γῆ καὶ σ. [[ 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Fragmenta” 532; σκιᾷ τινι λόγους ἀνέσπα 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Ajax” 301 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; also, of one worn to a shadow, [[ 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Eumenides” 302 ] Refs 4th c.BC+]; κακωθεὶς δ᾽ οὐδὲν ἄλλ᾽ εἰμ᾽ ἢ σ. [[[prev. author] “Niob.” in “Bull.Soc.Alex.” No.; φωνὴ καὶ σ. γέρων ἀνήρ 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Fragmenta” 509 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]: frequently in proverbs of man's mortal estate, σκιᾶς ὄναρ ἄνθρωπος [[ 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “P.” 8.95; εἴδωλον σκιᾶς 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Agamemnon” 839, compare 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Fragmenta” 659.6 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ὁρῶ γὰρ ἡμᾶς οὐδὲν ἄλλο πλὴν εἴδωλα.. ἢ κούφην σ. [[ [prev. author] “Aj.” 126; ἄνθρωπός ἐστι πνεῦμα καὶ σ. μόνον [prev. author] “fragment” 13; οὐδέν ἐσμεν πλὴν σκιαῖς ἐοικότες [prev. author] “fragment” 945 ] Refs]; of human affairs, εὐτυχοῦντα μὲν σκιᾷ τις ἂν πρέψειεν [[ 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Agamemnon” 1328 (uncertain reading)] Refs 4th c.BC+]; οὐδὲν μᾶλλον ἢ καπνοῦ σ. [[ [prev. author] “fragment” 399; καπνοῦ σκιὰν δέδοικεν “Comica Adespota” 692 ] Refs]; of worthless things, τἄλλ᾽ ἐγὼ καπνοῦ σκιᾶς οὐκ ἂν πριαίμην [[ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Antigone” 1170, compare “Ph.” 946; καπνοὺς καὶ σκιάς 5th c.BC: Eupolis Comicus 51; ὅσ᾽ ἂν γένηται ταῦτα πάντ᾽ ὄνου σκιά 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Fragmenta” 331 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; περὶ ὄνου σκιᾶς [μάχεσθαι] [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Vespae” 191, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Phaedrus” 260c; 5th-6th c.BC: Archippus Comicus ] Refs 5th c.BC+] wrote a Comedy texts entitled Ὄνου σκι; ἡ ἐν Δελφοῖς σ. that phantom at Delphi, of the Amphictyonic council, [[ 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 5.25 ] Refs 4th c.BC+]; αἱ τοῦ δικαίου σ. mere shadows of.., [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 517d; σκιαὶ καὶ ἐν ὕδασιν εἰκόνες [prev. work] 510e ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; σκιαὶ τῶν ὄντων, ἀλλ᾽ οὐκ εἰδώλων σ[[. [prev. work] 532c; στιγμὴ ἢ σ. τούτων 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 21.115; ἂν ἔχῃ φίλου σκιάν 4th-3rd c.BC: Menander Comicus 554. ] Refs 4th c.BC+]