Feminine dative singular of the archaic/poetic adjective skaio/s (cognate with Latin scaevus). Same gloss in other lexica, and in a scholion on Homer, Iliad 1.501, where the headword occurs (web address 1). The euphemistic a)ristero/s is the usual prose word for "left." See also sigma 547, sigma 548, sigma 549, sigma 550; and cf. laio/s at lambda 174 and lambda 193.