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ἐγκα^λ-ύπτω ,
A.veil, wrap up, Ar. Ra.911:—Pass., to be veiled or enwrapped, Id.Pl.714, Pl. Phdr.243b; to be wrapped up (as for sleep), X.An.4.5.19, Pl.Prt. 315d; ἐγκεκαλυμμένος λόγος, a noted fallacy, Stoic.2.8,90, etc.
II. Med., hide oneself, hide one's face, Ar.Pl.707, etc.; “ἐγκαλυπτόμενος καθεύδειν” And.1.17; of persons at the point of death, X. Cyr.8.7.26, Pl. Phd. 118a, etc.: metaph., conceal one's feelings, c. part., “νεμεσῶν ἐνεκαλύπτετο” App. BC2.69.
2. as a mark of shame, Pl.Phd. 117c, D.Ep.3.42, Aeschin.2.107: c.acc. pers., feel shame before a person, “θεοὺς ἐγκαλυπτόμενος ὧν ἔμελλε δράσειν” App.BC1.16: c. inf., to be ashamed to . . , PM asp.295.12 (v A.D.).
3. -καλυπτόμενος σφυγμός, term invented by Archig., Gal.8.662.
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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