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ἐπίπαστος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἐπίπαστος ἐπίπαστον

Structure: ἐπιπαστ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: from e)pipa/ssw

Sense

  1. sprinkled over, a kind of cake with comfits, upon it
  2. a plaster

Examples

  • "αὐτόματοι γὰρ διὰ τῶν τριόδων ποταμοὶ λιπαροῖσ ἐπιπάστοισ ζωμοῦ μέλανοσ καὶ Ἀχιλλείοισ μάζαισ κοχυδοῦντεσ ἐπιβλὺξ ἀπὸ τῶν πηγῶν τῶν τοῦ Πλούτου ῥεύσονται, σφῶν ἀρύτεσθαι. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 6, book 6, chapter 81 1:157)

Synonyms

  1. a plaster

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

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