LogeionPerseus analysis of σκαιῇ:
σκαιός (left, on the left hand): fem dat sg (epic ionic)
LSJ entry
σκαιός
σκαιός,
ά,
όν,
A. left, on the left hand,
poet. for ἀριστερός (used by Prose writers in metaph. sense, and once by Pl. in literal sense, Phdr. 266a;
also in Dor. Prose, ἐν σκαιάν,=
ἐς ἀριστεράν,
SIG 636.22
(Delph., ii B.C.;
σκαγαν lapis)); τὸ σ. ὄμμα παραβαλών A. Fr. 308 (cf. Ath. 7.303c);
in Hom. always in dat. σκαιῇ (sc. χειρί),
with the left hand,
Il. 1.501,
al.; χειρὶ σ.
Hes. Th. 179:—hence, II. western, westward (for the Greek diviner always turned his face northward, and so had the West on his left): hence Σκαιαὶ πύλαι the West-gate of Troy, Il. 3.145,
al., cf. Hsch. (otherwise expld. by Sch. ad loc.); σ. ῥίον either, on the left,
or west headland, Od. 3.295;
σ. λιμήν Orac. ap.D.S. 8.21;
πόρος D.P. 161,
481,
541.
III. metaph. of persons, lefthanded, awkward, clumsy, stupid,
-ότατος καὶ ἀδικώτατος Hdt. 1.129;
σ. ἰητροί Hp. Art. 42;
σκαιοῖσι πολλοῖς εἷς σοφὸς διόλλυται S. Fr. 921,
cf.771;
ὅπου δʼ Ἀπόλλων σ. ᾖ, τίνες σοφοί;
E. El. 972,
cf. Heracl. 258,
HF 283;
ὦ σκαιὲ κἀπαίδευτε Ar. V. 1183,
cf. 1266;
ἐπιλης μότατον καὶ -ότατον γερόντιον Id. Nu. 790;
οὕτω σ. ὥστε μαθεῖν οὐ δύνασθαι Lys. 10.15,
cf. Pl. Euthd. 295d;
σ. καὶ βάρβαρος τὸν τρόπον D. 26.17;
σ. καὶ ἀναίσθητος Id. 18.120;
σ. ἢ ἀνήκοος Id. 19.312.
Adv.,
σκαιῶς λέγειν Ar. Ec. 644,
cf. Pl. 60:
Comp.,
Phld. Acad.Ind.p.7 M.