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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

  • μυρία γάρ ἐστι τὰ ἀντιμαρτυροῦντα τῷ σχήματι, βάδισμα καὶ βλέμμα καὶ φωνὴ καὶ τράχηλοσ ἐπικεκλασμένοσ καὶ ψιμύθιον καὶ μαστίχη καὶ φῦκοσ, οἷσ ὑμεῖσ κοσμεῖσθε, καὶ ὅλωσ κατὰ τὴν παροιμίαν, θᾶττον ἂν πέντε ἐλέφαντασ ὑπὸ μάλησ κρύψειασ ἢ ἕνα κίναιδον. (Lucian, Adversus indoctum et libros multos ementem, (no name) 23:9)
  • ἥγχουσα μᾶλλον καὶ τὸ σὸν ψιμύθιον; (Aristophanes, Ecclesiazusae, Lyric-Scene, antistrophe 2 1:9)
  • οὐ δῆτ’, ἐπεὶ νῦν μὲν καπηλικῶσ ἔχει, εἰ δ’ ἐκπλυνεῖται τοῦτο τὸ ψιμύθιον, ὄψει κατάδηλα τοῦ προσώπου τὰ ῥάκη. (Aristophanes, Plutus, Episode 2:15)
  • ὑπεφαίνετο δέ τι καὶ ψιμύθιον καὶ φῦκοσ, καὶ τὰ ῥήματα πάνυ ἑταιρικά, καὶ ἐπαινουμένη ὑπὸ τῶν ἐραστῶν εἰσ κάλλοσ ἔχαιρε, καὶ εἰ δοίη τισ προχείρωσ ἐδέχετο, καὶ τοὺσ πλουσιωτέρουσ ἂν παρακαθισαμένη πλησίον τοὺσ πένητασ τῶν ἐραστῶν οὐδὲ προσέβλεπεν. (Lucian, Piscator, (no name) 12:4)
  • μᾶλλον δὲ ὑπέρμεγα τοῦτο κακόν, εἰ μὴ εἰδείη τισ χωρίζειν τὰ ἱστορίασ καὶ τὰ ποιητικῆσ, ἀλλ̓ ἐπεισάγει τῇ ἱστορίᾳ τὰ τῆσ ἑτέρασ κομμώματα, τὸν μῦθον καὶ τὸ ἐγκώμιον καὶ τὰσ ἐν τούτοισ ὑπερβολάσ, ὥσπερ ἂν εἴ τισ ἀθλητὴν τῶν καρτερῶν τούτων καὶ κομιδῇ πρινίνων ἁλουργίσι περιβάλοι καὶ τῷ ἄλλῳ κόσμῳ τῷ ἑταιρικῷ καὶ φυκίον ἐντρίβοι καὶ ψιμύθιον τῷ προσώπῳ, Ἡράκλεισ ὡσ καταγέλαστον αὐτὸν ἀπεργάσαιτο αἰσχύνασ τῷ κόσμῳ ἐκείνῳ. (Lucian, Quomodo historia conscribenda sit, chapter 8 2:1)

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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