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[Meaning a] cloak, sedan-chair. But fa/skwlon is a pouch.[1]
As Isaeus and Lysias have said.[2]
Or a public item, one gathered for storage.[3]
"[...] and [he] making the faskw/lion full in quantity and weight." Agathias [sc. writes this] in his History.[4]
"But he fashioning 100 tripods and putting them in a kind of store-house."[5]

*faskw/lion: i(ma/tion, forei=on. fa/skwlon de/ e)sti marsi/ppion. w(s *)isai=os kai\ *lusi/as ei)/rhken. h)\ dhmo/sion xrh=ma, to\ sunaxqe\n ei)s a)po/qesin. kai\ pro/s ge mesto\n kata\ to\ ple/on kai\ e)mbriqe/steron poiw=n to\ faskw/lion. *)agaqi/as e)n i(stori/a|. o( de\ tri/podas r# e)kponh/sas kai\ e)mbalw\n ei)/s ti faskw/lion.

The headword is a diminutive of fa/skwlon or fa/skwlos, mentioned in the opening gloss.
[1] Likewise or similarly in other lexica; references at Photius phi80, where Theodoridis notes Porson's emendation (endorsed by G. Dindorf) of i(ma/tion, forei=on to the single word i(matioforei=on "garment-bag."
[2] cf. Harpokration and other lexica. The citations are Isaeus fr. 171 Sauppe and Lysias fr. 90 Sauppe (now 100 Carey OCT).
[3] Same material, according to Adler, in the unpublished Lexicon codicis Barocciani 50. This would suggest that somebody thought fa/skwlos had a Latin origin (related to fascis); but if indeed fa/skwlo- was used by Aristophanes, Isaeus, and Lysias, the word could be a cognate rather than a borrowing from Latin (cf. Macedonian ba/skioi, Hesychius beta299).
[4] Agathias, Histories 4.22 (p. 254.21), on the 557 CE depredations of John the Libyan (cf. PLRE IIIa s.v. Ioannes (68)), a bodyguard on the staff of the Byzantine general Justin (cf. PLRE IIIa s.v. Iustinus (4)), in Kolchis/Lazike (cf. alpha 112 and kappa 1979); cf. Frendo (124).
[5] Bruhn related this to Aelian fr. 285b Domingo-Forasté, 287 Hercher (delta 107).

C. de Boor, "Suidas und die Konstantinsche Exzerptsammlung II," Byzantinische Zeitschrift 23 (1919) 32, 57
C. de Boor, "Zu den Fragmenten des Aelian," Rheinisches Museum 45 (1890) 478
Ewald Bruhn, "Suidea," Rheinisches Museum 45 (1890) 275
Ed. Luigi de Stefani, "Per le fonti del Lexicon ΑΙΜΩΔΕΙΝ," Studi italiani di filologia classica 18 (1910) 439
J.R. Martindale, The Prosopography of the Later Roman Empire, vol. IIIa, (Cambridge, 1992)
J.D. Frendo, trans., Agathias: The Histories, (Berlin 1975)

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