σχεδ-όν,
adverb, (ἔχω, σχεῖν):
__I of Place, near, hard by, Epic dialect and Lyric poetry, δυσμενέες δ᾽ ἄνδρες σ. εἵαται [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 10.100; σ. εἴσιδε γαῖαν 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 5.392, compare 24.493 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; σ. οὔτασε at close quarters, [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 5.458; μή πώς σ᾽ ἠὲ βάλῃ ἠὲ σ. ἄορι τύψῃ 20.378, compare 13.576, 16.828: sometimes with _dative_, οὐ γάρ σφιν παῖδες σ. εἵαται 10.422; νῆσοι ναιετάουσι σ. ἀλλήλῃσι 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 9.23; οἳ δή σφι σ. εἰσι 8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus “Scutum Herculis” 113 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; so στάθεν τύμβῳ σ. [[ 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “N.” 10.66 (also πὰρ ποδὶ σ. [prev. author] “O.” 1.74 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἀμφ᾽ ἀνδριάντι σ. [[ [prev. author] “P.” 5.40): more frequently with _genitive_, Φαιήκων γαίης σ. 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 5.288, compare 475, 6.125, 9.117, 10.156, etc.; σ. αἵματος 11.142. ] Refs 8th c.BC+]
__I.2 with Verbs of motion, σ. ἐλθεῖν τινι [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 9.304, compare 8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus “Scutum Herculis” 435 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; τινος [[ 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 4.439; Ἀχαιίδος 11.481; ὅστις σ. ἔγχεος ἔλθῃ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 20.363. ] Refs 8th c.BC+]
__II metaphorically ofrelationship, καὶ πηῷ περ ἐόντι μάλα σ. [[ 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 10.441. ] Refs 8th c.BC+]
__II.2 similar to, with dative, σ. τούτοις.. αἱ παραλλαγαὶ.. εἰσίν [[ 4th c.AD: Iamblichus Philosophus “de communi mathematica scientia” 27. ] Refs 4th c.AD+]