A.first-moulded as a pattern or model, archetypal, σφραγίς, παράδειγμα, Ph.1.5, al.: Comp. “-ώτερος” Plot.6.8.14; exemplary, ideal, “μαῖα” Sor.1.4.
II. ἀρχέτυπον, τό, archetype, pattern, model, opp. ἀπόγραφον, D.H.Is.11, cf. APl.4.204 ([Simon]), Cic. Att.16.3.1; Philos., Plot.5.1.4, Procl.in R.2.296 K.; figure on a seal, Luc.Alex.21; ἀ. Διδοῦς a portrait of Dido as she really was, APl.4.151; “δαίδαλον ἀ.” IG14.1188; of the nominative case, Stoic. 2.48.