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Isocrates in [the] Banking Speech [refers to] "Pythodoros the so-called stallholder".[1] It seems to be a nickname. Perhaps this is a way of calling him a market man; for many goods were on sale in stalls.
Also "life in a tent",[2] the inconceivable [sort].
Also [sc. attested is the phrase] "a skene which they took and possess, but they do not account for this either": Demosthenes in the [speech] Against Spoudias [sc. says this].[3] It seems to be a particular implement: some say that it is a feminine adornment, others a parasol.
Also [attested is the phrase] "[he] set up a skene", that is, according to a gloss, a tent.[4]

Skênitês: Isokratês Trapezitikôi: Puthodôron gar ton Skênitên kaloumenon. eoike de epônumion einai. mêpote de hôs eis agoraion legomenon: epei en skênais epiprasketo polla tôn ôniôn. kai Skênêtês bios, ho aperinoêtos. kai, Skênên de, hên echousin: oude gar tautên labontes anapherousin. Dêmosthenês en tôi pros Spoudian. eoike de skeuos ti einai: hoper hoi men kosmon tina gunaikeion einai phasin, hoi de skiadion. kai Skênên epêxato, toutesti tendan, kata glôssan.

An amalgamation of two adjacent entries in Harpokration (s.v. skhni/ths and skhnh\n ktl), with other material
[1] Isocrates 17.33 (web address 1).
[2] The phrase occurs in Diodorus Siculus 2.40.6, of an Indian caste.
[3] Demosthenes 41.11 (web address 2).
[4] This phrase occurs in several Christian writers commenting on passages in the Old Testament, such as Genesis 13:18 LXX (Abraham).

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