A.“ἐπέκρυ^φον” Q.S.7.235 (v.l.ἀπ-):—throw a cloak over, conceal, “χεῖρας φονίας” A.Eu.317 (lyr.); “τὴν βούλησιν τοῦ ὀνόματος” Pl.Cra.421b; f.l.for ἔπη κρύπτειν, E.Supp.296:—freq. in Med., disguise, “κἀπικρύψασθαι κακά” S.Fr.88.12 (v.l.); τὰς αὑτοῦ τύχας . . τοὐπικρύπτεσθαι “σοφόν” E.Fr.553; “ἐ. τὴν αὑτοῦ ἀπορίαν” Pl.La.196b, cf. Prt.346b; “τἀληθῆ” D.17.17: abs., ἐπικρυπτόμενος with concealment or secrecy, X.An.1.1.6; “ἐπικρύπτεσθαί τι τῷ μεγέθει τῶν ἄλλων ἔργων” D. 61.45; “πρὸς τοὺς πολλοὺς τὴν δεινότητα” Plu.Per.4; ἐ. τινά τι conceal a thing from one, Plb.3.75.1; also “ἐ. τινὰ ὡς . . ” Pl.Tht.180d; ὅτι οὐχ “ὑγιαίνει” Id.R.476e; disguise, conceal one's purpose, τῶν πεντακισχιλίων “τῷ ὀνόματι” Th.8.92; “ἐσθῆτι θεράποντος” Plu.Caes.38:—Pass., to be concealed, Arist.Pol.1278a39.
ἐπι-κρύπτω , poet. aor. 2
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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