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[Meaning] tended herds.[1]
Also [meaning] Scythian peoples. For "Straton wanders among nomad Scythians". [So says] Aristophanes.[2] In reference to those being annoying and staying around -- since the Scythians, on account of the intolerability of the winter, put[3] [their] things upon wagons and depart to another country. But if one does not have a wagon there, he is judged dishonored amongst them. So this man is saying that he too is being bothered. This [is what] he says: "we are suffering a sickness the opposite to Sakas". [So says] Aristophanes.[4] This Sakas was a tragic poet; so he was called on account of his being a foreigner.[4]
But perhaps [he was] also a barbarian;[5] for the Saka [are] a barbarian people, from whom [come] sake ["convex shields"], according to some.[6]
The same Aristophanes [goes on to say]: "for he, although no citizen, is forcing his way in; but we, honored in tribe and clan, citizens among citizens, with no scarecrow scaring us off, we have flown away from our country 'with both feet'". That is, with all [our] might.[7]

*noma/des: bosko/menai a)ge/lai. kai\ e)/qnh *skuqika/. noma/desi ga\r e)n *sku/qais a)la=tai *stra/twn. *)aristofa/nhs. e)pi\ tw=n parenoxlou/ntwn kai\ e)pimeno/ntwn. e)peidh\ oi( *sku/qai tw=| xeimw=ni dia\ to\ a)fo/rhton au)tou= e)f' a(macw=n ta\ pra/gmata ba/llontes a)pairou=sin ei)s a)/llhn xw/ran. o( de\ mh\ e)/xwn e)kei=se a(/macan, a)/timos par' au)toi=s kri/netai. fhsi\n ou)=n kai\ ou(=tos e)noxlou/menos. tou=to/ fhsi, no/son nosou=men th\n e)nanti/an *sa/ka|. *)aristofa/nhs. o( de\ *sa/kas ou(=tos tragw|di/as h)=n poihth/s: ou(/tw de\ e)kalei=to dia\ to\ ce/nos ei)=nai. i)/sws de\ kai\ ba/rbaros: oi( ga\r *sa/kai ba/rbaron e)/qnos, e)c w(=n ta\ sa/kh kata/ tinas. o( au)to\s *)aristofa/nhs: o( me\n ga\r w)\n ou)k a)sto\s ei)sbia/zetai: h(mei=s de\ fulh=| kai\ ge/nei timw/menoi, a)stoi\ met' a)stw=n, ou) sobou=ntos ou)deno/s, a)nepto/mesq' e)k th=s patri/dos a)mfoi=n podoi=n. toute/sti panti\ sqe/nei.

cf. nu 451, nu 452.
[1] Likewise in other lexica, beginning with Hesychius; see the references at Photius nu237 Theodoridis. The headword itself, a nominative plural, must be quoted from somewhere where it has (or can have) this specific sense; see generally LSJ s.v., II.
[2] Aristophanes, Birds 941-2 (web address 1); more fully at upsilon 701. The material which now follows comes from the scholia there. (It is not certain, however, that Straton here is a proper name; it might be the genitive plural of the noun stratos. See the commentary in Dunbar ad loc., where this alternative is advocated.)
[3] cf. LSJ s.v. ba/llw, A.II.6.
[4] Aristophanes, Birds 31. According to the scholia there, the actual name of this "Sakas" (cf. alpha 808 and sigma 33) was Akestor.
[5] i.e., non Greek-speaking.
[6] (This material is a marginal addition in some mss.) cf. Etymologicum Magnum 707.35.
[7] Aristophanes, Birds 32-35; see web address 2. The scholia to line 35 clarify the final two words, a)mfoi=n podoi=n; literally "with both feet," idiomatically "as fast as we could go" (cf. LSJ pou/s A.6.f).

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