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ἐμπρέπω ,
A.to be conspicuous in, “πενταέθλοισιν” B.8.27; αἰθέρι, of the stars, A.Ag.6; ἐπ᾽ ὀμμάτων ἐ. （εὖ πρ. cod. Med.) to be conspicuous on the face, ib.1428 (lyr.); Βάκχαις ἐ. among them, Ar.Nu.605:—Med., “Λύδαισιν ἐμπρέπεται γυναίκεσσιν” Sapph.Supp.25.6.
2. to be conspicuous or famous, A.Ch.356 (lyr.), E.Heracl.407; ἀνδράσι for men, Pi.P.8.28; “ἄλγεσι” S.El.1187; “ἐσθήμασι” Id.Fr.769; ἐν ὅπλοις δεινῶς ἐ. D.C.40.41; ἐνέπρεπον ἔχοντες . . Hdt.7.67,83.
3. suit, “τῇ φωνῇ καὶ τὴν τραυλότητα ἐμπρέψαι λέγουσι” Plu.Alc.1: impers., it is fitting or suitable, c. inf., Hld.5.8.
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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