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ἐπίπεδ-ος , ον,
A.on the ground, on the ground-floor, στοαὶ ἐ., opp. ὑπερῷοι, D.H.3.68, cf. PFlor.376.7 (iii A.D.); “σηκός” Aret.CA2.2.
II.. level, flat, Pl.Criti.112a; “χωρίον” X.HG7.1.29, etc.; οὐκ ἐν ἐπιπέδῳ, ἀλλὰ πρὸς ὀρθίῳ not on a level, but . . , ib.6.4.14; “ἐξ ἐπιπέδου” PThead.20i3 (iv A.D.); = Lat. de plano, J.AJ19.5.3: irreg. Comp. “-πεδέστερος” X.HG7.4.13.
2.. στεγνὰ ἐπίπεδα an accurately fitting pavement, SIG996.27 (Smyrna, i A.D.).
III.. in Geom., plane, superficial, opp. στερεός (solid), Pl.Phlb.51c, Ti.32a; ἐ. γωνία a plane angle, ib.54e; ἡ τοῦ ἐ. πραγματεία plane geometry, Id.R.528d; μήκους καὶ ἐ. καὶ βάθους one-, two-, and three-dimensional magnitude, Id.Lg.817e; “εἰ κῶνος τέμνοιτο ἐπιπέδῳ” Democr.155.
2.. of numbers, representing a surface, Plu.2.367f, Nicom.Ar.2.7; ὁ ἰσόπλευρος καὶ ἐ. ἀριθμός a square number, Pl.Tht.148a. Adv. -δως Nicom.l.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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  • Cross-references in general dictionaries from this page (13):
    • Flavius Josephus, Jewish Antiquities, 19.5.3
    • Plato, Laws, 817e
    • Plato, Republic, 528d
    • Plato, Theaetetus, 148a
    • Plato, Philebus, 51c
    • Plato, Critias, 112a
    • Plato, Timaeus, 54e
    • Plato, Timaeus, 32a
    • Xenophon, Hellenica, 6.4.14
    • Xenophon, Hellenica, 7.1.29
    • Xenophon, Hellenica, 7.4.13
    • Aretaeus, De curatione acutorum morborum libri duo, 2.2
    • Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, 3.68
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