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εἴδωλον , τό, (εἶδος)
A.phantom, Il.5.451, Od.4.796, Hdt.5.92.ή, Pl. Lg.959b; βροτῶν εἴδωλα καμόντων, of ghosts, Od.11.476, etc.; “ψυχῶν” Procl.Inst.64.
2. any unsubstantial form, “εἴδωλον σκιᾶς” A.Ag. 839, S.Fr.659.6, Chaerem.14.15; “οὐδὲν ἄλλο πλὴν εἴδωλα . . ἢ κούφην σκιάν” S.Aj.126; εἴ. ἄλλως a mere form, Id.Ph.947; αἰῶνος εἴ. Pi.Fr.131.3.
3. image reflected in a mirror or in water, Pl.Sph. 266b, Arist.Div.Somn.464b9.
4. in the system of Epicurus, film given off by any object and conveying an impression to the eye, Epicur.Ep.1p.10U., Nat.2.1, al., Cic.Fam.15.16.1, etc.
II. image in the mind, idea, X.Smp.4.21; phantom of the mind, fancy, Pl.Phd. 66c; “εἴ. καὶ ψεῦδος” Id.Tht.150c.
III. image, likeness, “γυναικὸς εἴ. χρύσεον” Hdt.1.51, cf.6.58: metaph., “λόγος εἴ. ψυχῆς” Isoc.3.7.
IV. later, image of a god, idol, LXX 4 Ki.17.12, 1 Ep.Cor.12.2, OGI201.8 (Silco, vi A.D.), etc.
V. εἴ. οὐράνια constellations, A.R.3.1004, cf. Max.56.
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 (20):
    • Cicero, Letters to his Friends, 15.16.1
    • Aeschylus, Agamemnon, 839
    • Herodotus, Histories, 1.51
    • Herodotus, Histories, 6.58
    • Herodotus, Histories, 5.92
    • Homer, Iliad, 5.451
    • Homer, Odyssey, 11.476
    • Homer, Odyssey, 4.796
    • Isocrates, Nicocles or the Cyprians, 7
    • Plato, Laws, 959b
    • Plato, Phaedo, 66c
    • Plato, Sophist, 266b
    • Plato, Theaetetus, 150c
    • Sophocles, Ajax, 126
    • Sophocles, Philoctetes, 947
    • Xenophon, Symposium, 4.21
    • Sophocles, Ichneutae, 659.6
    • Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica, 3.1004
    • New Testament, 1 Corinthians, 12.2
    • Old Testament, 2 Kings, 17.12
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