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ἐπι[πόλ]-αιος , ον,
A.on the surface, superficial, Hp.Art.69 (Comp.); “ῥίζα” Dsc.4.184, cf.Thphr. HP3.6.4 (Sup.), al.; “λεπτὸν καὶ ἐ. δέρμα” Arist.Pr.890a13; “τραῦμα” Luc.Nav.37.
2.. ὀστέον shallow (of the skull), Hp.VC21; ὀφθαλμοί, i.e. not deep-set, X.Smp.5.5.
3.. metaph., superficial, shallow, commonplace, “παιδεία” Isoc.15.190; “ἐ. ἡδοναὶ καὶ διατριβαί” D.61.56; ἐ. “πιθανότης” Dsc.Ther.Praef.; -ότατος πυρετός slight fever, Diocl.Fr. 107; ἐ. ὕπνος light sleep, Luc.Gall.25; “ἔρως” Id.DMeretr.8.2; ἐπιστήμης . . φύσις (compared to a well) “οὐκ ἐ. ἀλλὰ πάνυ βαθεῖα” Ph.1.621.
b.. on the surface, manifest: hence, obvious, ἐ. λέγομεν τὰ “παντὶ δῆλα” Arist.Rh.1410b22, cf. 1412b25; “ἐπιπολαιότερον τοῦ ζητουμένου” Id.EN1095b24; ἡ -οτάτη . . ζήτησις the most obvious method of inquiry, Id.Pol.1276a19; ἐπιπόλαιον τὸ ψεῦδος ib.1282b30.
II.. Adv. -ως on the surface, “τιτρώσκειν” J.BJ3.7.22.
2.. slightly, Hp. Aph.2.28; superficially, Arist.Metaph.987a22: Comp. -οτέρως ib.993b13.
III.. ἐπιπόλαιον, τό, v. ἐπίπλοον.
IV.. ἐπιπόλαια χρήματα, = ἔπιπλα, Leg.Gort.5.41, cf. GDI5016.15 (Gortyn).
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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