σκῆψιν (skepsin)

σκῆψιν is an Ancient Greek form of σκῆψις, meaning “pretext, excuse”. It is the accusative singular feminine noun.

Found 53 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Euripides, Medea 744: σκῆψίν τιν’ ἐχθροῖς σοῖς ἔχοντα δεικνύναι,

Euripides, Ion 721: στενομένα γὰρ ἂν πόλις ἔχοι σκῆψιν

Xenophon, Hellenica 3.1.15: ταῦτα δὲ ποιήσας Σκῆψιν καὶ Γέργιθα ἐχυρὰς πόλεις κατέσχεν, ἔνθα καὶ τὰ χρήματα μάλιστα ἦν τῇ Μανίᾳ. αἱ δʼ ἄλλαι πόλεις οὐκ ἐδέχοντο …

All forms of σκῆψις (declension table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Liddell-Scott-Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.