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ψιμύθιον

Second declension Noun; Neuter Transliteration:

Principal Part: ψιμύθιον

Structure: ψιμυθι (Stem) + ον (Ending)

Etym.: yi/muqos

Sense

  1. white lead

Declension

Second declension

The inflection forms above were generated by rules and some usages of them were not attested.

Due to a bug of system, some forms may display wrong accents.

Examples

  • μὰ Δί’ οὐχὶ περιπεπλασμέναι ψιμυθίοισ οὐδ’ ὥσπερ ὑμεῖσ συκαμίνῳ τὰσ γνάθουσ κεχριμέναι. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 13, book 13, chapter 6 2:1)
  • χωρὶσ γὰρ τοῦ μηδ’ ὑφ’ ἑνὸσ τῶν ἔξωθεν ὁρᾶσθαι βίον ἔζησε γυναικόσ, καὶ διαιτώμενοσ μὲν μετὰ τῶν παλλακίδων, πορφύραν δὲ καὶ τὰ μαλακώτατα τῶν ἐρίων ταλασιουργῶν, στολὴν μὲν γυναικείαν ἐνεδεδύκει, τὸ δὲ πρόσωπον καὶ πᾶν τὸ σῶμα ψιμυθίοισ καὶ τοῖσ ἄλλοισ τοῖσ τῶν ἑταιρῶν ἐπιτηδεύμασιν ἁπαλώτερον πάσησ γυναικὸσ τρυφερᾶσ κατεσκεύαστο. (Diodorus Siculus, Bibliotheca Historica, book 2, chapter 23 1:2)

Synonyms

  1. white lead

Related

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

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