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II. mark engraved, impress, stamp on coins and seals, “ἀργύρου λαμπρὸς χ.” E.El.559, cf. Pl.Plt.289b, Arist. Pol.1257a40; coin type, standard, “ἦν δ᾽ ὁ ἀρχαῖος χ. δίδραχμον” Id.Ath.10.2, cf. OGI339.45 (Sestos, ii B. C.), D.S.17.66; Κότυος χ. Head Hist.Num.2285 (Thrace, i B. C.): hence, in pl., = χάραγμα 1.2, PFlor.61.21 (i A. D.): metaph., οἷς ἡ ἀρετὴ εὐδοξίας χαρακτῆρα τοῖς ἔργοις ἐπέβαλεν set a stamp upon them, Isoc.1.8; Κύπριος (s. v. l.) “χαρακτὴρ . . ἐν γυναικείοις τύποις εἰκὼς πέπληκται” A.Supp.282.

2. esp. of figures or letters, “οἱ τῶν γραμμάτων χ.” Plu.2.214f; ὁ τύπος τῶν χ. ib.577f, cf. 1120f, D.S.3.67; of the letters used by Hp. in Epid.3.1, Zeno and Apollonius ap.Gal.17(1).618, cf. 524sq.; of a single letter of the alphabet, Jul.Or.2.72a; “ξυλήφια βραχέα ἔχοντα χαρακτῆρα” Plb.6.35.7; brand on a camel, PGen.29.8 (ii A. D.); of symbols in a prescription, Gal.13.995; of magical symbols (such as the seven vowels), “τῶν χ. ἡ ἀπόρρητος φύσις” Jul.Or.7.216c, cf. Iamb.Myst.3.13, Sallust.15; of hieroglyphs, opp. γράμματα, Luc. Herm.44.

3. metaph., distinctive mark or token impressed (as it were) on a person or thing, by which it is known from others, characteristic, character, χ. γλώσσης, of a particular dialect, Hdt.1.57,142; “χ. αὑτὸς ἐν γλώσσῃ” S.Fr.176; “χ. ἡμεδαπὸς τῶν ῥημάτων” Ar.Pax220; ὁ Ἑλληνικὸς χ. Greek idiom, D.H.Pomp.3: freq. of persons, feature, “ὁ χ. τοῦ προσώπου” Hdt.1.116; “εἰληφέναι χαρακτῆρα ἑκατέρου τοῦ εἴδους” Pl.Phdr.263b; “οἱ τῆς ὄψεως χ.” D.S.1.91; “ἀνδρῶν οὐδεὶς χ. ἐμπέφυκε σώματι” E.Med.519; “δεινὸς χ. κἀπίσημος . . ἐσθλῶν γενέσθαι” Id.Hec.379; “φανερὸς χ. ἀρετᾶς” Id.HF659 (lyr.); ἠθικοὶ χ., title of work by Thphr.: pl., οἱ χ. the features of the face, J.AJ13.12.1, cf. OGI508.13 (Ephesus, ii A. D.); χ. μορφῆς ἐμῆς ib.383.60 (Nemrud Dagh, i B. C., sg.); [τοῦ ἐμβρύου] Sor.1.33 (pl.): hence,

4. type or character (regarded as shared with others) of a thing or person, rarely of an individual nature, “ἀνδρὸς χ. ἐκ λόγου γνωρίζεται” Men.72; “χ. μοχθηρότατον παραπλάττεσθαι” Phld.Rh.1.6 S.; “τὸν χ. τὸν Διογένους” Arr.Epict.3.22.80; τίνα ἔχει χ. τὰ δόγματα; ib.4.5.17; of nations, Plb.18.34.7.

5. style, freq. in Rhet., “ὁ Δημοσθένους χ.” D.H.Dem.9, cf. Pomp.1, Cic.QF2.15(16).5; “χ. δικανικός” Phld.Rh.2.137S.; χ. optimi the ideal type, Cic.Orat. 11.36, cf.39.134; “χ. ἰσχνός, μεγαλοπρεπής, γλαφυρός, δεινός” Demetr. Eloc.36, cf. D.H.Dem.33; “χ. λέξεως” Id.Lys.11; “χ. Ἀσιανός” Str.13.1.66.

6. impress, image, τῆς ὑποστάσεως [τοῦ θεοῦ] Ep.Heb.1.3; πάθους, ἀρετῆς, Longin.22.1, Eun.Hist.p.243 D.: abs., οἱ Σεβάστειοι χ. the imperial seal, i.e. the emperor himself, IG5(2).268.24 (Mantinea, i B. C.).

7. Gramm., typical form, A.D.Synt.20.10, 103.23.

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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- Cicero, Letters to his brother Quintus, 2.15.5
- Aeschylus, Suppliant Maidens, 282
- Aristophanes, Peace, 220
- Aristotle, Constitution of the Athenians, 10.2
- Diodorus, Historical Library, 17.66
- Euripides, Electra, 559
- Euripides, Hecuba, 379
- Euripides, Heracles, 659
- Euripides, Medea, 519
- Herodotus, Histories, 1.116
- Herodotus, Histories, 1.57
- Isocrates, To Demonicus, 8
- Flavius Josephus, Jewish Antiquities, 13.12.1
- Plato, Statesman, 289b
- Plato, Phaedrus, 263b
- Sophocles, Ichneutae, 176
- Polybius, Histories, 18.34.7
- Polybius, Histories, 6.35.7
- Strabo, Geography, 13.1.66
- Hippocrates, De morbis popularibus, 3.1
- Lucian, Hermotimus, 44
- Diodorus, Historical Library, 1.91
- Diodorus, Historical Library, 3.67
- Cicero, Orator, 11.36
- Cicero, Orator, 39.134
- Dionysius of Halicarnassus, De Lysia, 11
- Dionysius of Halicarnassus, De Demosthene, 33
- Dionysius of Halicarnassus, De Demosthene, 9
- Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Epistula ad Pompeium Geminum, 1
- Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Epistula ad Pompeium Geminum, 3

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