σκοτία
ἡ
A.
darkness, gloom, A.R. 4.1698, LXX (Mi. 3.6, al.), NT (Ev.Matt. 10.27, al.), cf. Moer.p.354 P.
II.
in Architecture, scotia, cavetto, a sunken moulding, so called from the dark shadow it casts, Vitr. 3.5.2, Hsch.
III.
Σκοτιά, epith. of Aphrodite in Egypt, Id.