δέρρις, εως, ἡ,
(Attic dialect form of Δέρσις, compare δέρω) skin, δ. τριχίνη [[ LXX.Zech.13.4, compare “Anthologia Graeca” 12.33 (1st c.BC: Meleager Epigrammaticus). ] LXX+1st c.BC+]
__II leathern covering, of a jerkin, [[ 5th c.BC: Eupolis Comicus 328 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; of a curtain, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Comicus 240, 5th c.BC: Myrtilus Comicus 1. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__III in plural (singular, [[ 3rd-2nd c.BC: Philo Mechanicus “(Belopoeica) Excerpte aus Philons Mechanik - Ath. Berl. Akad.” 95.34)] Refs 3rd c.BC+], screens of skin or hide, hung before fortifications to deaden the enemy's missiles, [[ 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 2.75, 1st c.BC: Cicero, M. Tullius Orator et Philosophus “Epistulae ad Atticum” 4.19.1, 1st c.BC: Diodorus Siculus Historicus 20.9, 2nd c.AD: Apollodorus Damascenus Mechanicus “Abhandlungen der Göttinger Gesellschaft der Wissenschaften (Phil.-hist. Klasse)” 142.2, 2nd c.AD: Polyaenus Historicus 3.11.13 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]: generally, curtain, [[ LXX.Exo.26.7, +others, “IG” 5(1).1390.35 (Andania, 1st c.BC). ] LXX+1st c.BC+]