2. illustration, picture showing how something is to be done, Apollon.Cit.2,3.
II. pattern, Plb.3.17.8; “μετανοίας” LXX Si.44.16, cf. 2 Ma.6.28; “ὑ. καὶ σκιά” Ep.Hebr.8.5, cf. 9.23; “τὸ ὑ. τοῦ οἴκου” LXX Ez.42.15: in Inscrr., “πρὸς ὑπόδειγμα ἀρετῆς” CIG2769,2774,2775d (add.), al. (Aphrodisias); “καλὸν ὑ. τῆς ἰδίας προαιρέσεως καταβαλλόμενος” BMus.Inscr.925b22 (Branchidae, i B. C.): but also “ὑ. ἀπειθίας” BGU747 ii 14 (ii A. D.); “ὑ. μελλόντων ἀσεβεῖν” 2 Ep.Pet.2.6.
III. example, instance, AP6.342, Ph.Bel.69.10, D.H. Comp.17, Hp.Ep.17, Herm. in Phdr.p.185 A.; “ὑποδείγματος χάριν” Nicom.Ar.1.8; specimen, BGU1141.43 (i B. C.), etc.: pl., Phld.Rh. 1.8 S., al.:—rejected as less correct than παράδειγμα by the Atticists, Phryn.4.