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ἔκτυπος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἔκτυπος ἔκτυπον

Structure: ἐκτυπ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. worked in high relief, a figure worked in relief, a cameo

Examples

  • περιττῶσ δὲ καὶ τοῦτ’ ἔφρασεν ὁ ποιητήσ, τοὺσ χρυσοῦσ ἥλουσ παρατιθεὶσ τῇ τοῦ ἀργυροῦ ἐκπώματοσ φύσει, τὴν τῶν ἀστέρων καὶ τοῦ οὐρανοῦ ἐκτυπῶν κατὰ τὴν ἰδέαν τῆσ χρόασ οὐσίαν, ὁ μὲν γὰρ οὐρανὸσ ἀργύρῳ προσέοικεν, οἱ δὲ ἀστέρεσ χρυσῷ διὰ τὸ πυρῶδεσ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 11, book 11, chapter 78 2:1)

Related

Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.

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