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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

  • ἐπίπαστα λείξασ δημιόπραθ’ ὁ βάσκανοσ ῥέγκει μεθύων ἐν ταῖσι βύρσαισ ὕπτιοσ. (Aristotle, Prologue 3:19)
  • καὶ γῆσ καὶ τῆσ ἐρυθρᾶσ γε θαλάσσησ, χὤτι γ’ ἐν Ἐκβατάνοισ δικάσεισ, λείχων ἐπίπαστα. (Aristotle, Episode 2:27)
  • "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)
  • ἢν δὲ ἐπὶ μᾶλλον παχῦναι καὶ στῦψαι ἐθέλῃσ, οἱ χόνδροι μὲν ξὺν φοίνιξι ἑψείσθωσαν · ἐσ δὲ τὴν σύστασιν, ἄμυλοσ ἔστω, καὶ γάλα, ἄριστον καὶ φὰρ τὸ Τυρρηνικὸν , παχὺ ἐὸν καὶ γλίσχρον, καὶ κολλῶδεσ ξὺν τῷ γάλακτι· ταμισοῦ δὲ τοῦ ἐρίφου ὑγροῖσι τοῖσι ἑψήμασι προσεγχέειν ἐσ πῆξιν, ὅκωσ ἐπὶ γάλακτι ἐσ νέου τυροῦ ξύστασιν ἴσχει· παχύτερον δὲ τουτέων, κέγχροσ ἑφθὸσ ξὺν γάλακτι ὡσ τὸ φὰρ, καὶ τὸ ἐπίπαστον ἡ κηκὶσ καὶ τὰ σίδια. (Aretaeus, The Extant Works of Aretaeus, The Cappadocian., ARETAIOU KAPPADOKOU OCEWN NOUSWN QERAPEUTIKON, 108)
  • Οὐδὲν πὸτ τὸν ἔρωτα πεφύκει φάρμακον ἄλλο Νικία οὔτ’ ἔγχριστον, ἐμὶν δοκεῖ, οὔτ’ ἐπίπαστον, ἢ ταὶ Πιερίδεσ· (Theocritus, Idylls, 1)

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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