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ὑπόχρυ_σ-ος , ον,
A.containing a mixture or proportion of gold, “γῆ” Poll.3.87: metaph. of persons, Pl.R.415c; cf. ὑπάργυρος, etc.
II. laden with gold, very rich, “ἔμπορος” Hld.2.8; νεανίσκος 'gilded youth', Luc.Tox.16.
III. gleaming with gold, “μῆλα” Philostr.Im.1.31; gilded, Men.Epit.170; [“δακτυλίους] σιδηροῦς ὑ.” Inscr.Délos 298.33 (iii B. C.); κονδύλιον ὑ. ib.442 B61 (ii B. C.).
Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. A Greek-English Lexicon. revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones. with the assistance of. Roderick McKenzie. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1940.

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