A.lay a person in a trough with head, arms, and legs hanging out, and expose him in the heat of the sun, until he dies eaten by insects, a Persian mode of torture, Ctes.Fr.29.30, Plu.Art.16.
σκα^φ-εύω , (σκάφη)
Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. A Greek-English Lexicon. revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones. with the assistance of. Roderick McKenzie. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1940.
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