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γλύφω [υ^], fut.
A.“γλύψω” LXX Ex.28.9: aor. “ἔγλυψα” Str.9.2.25:— Med., aor. “ἐγλυψάμην” Theoc.Ep.8, Plu.2.806d:—Pass., aor. 1 part. “γλυφθέν” AP6.229 (Crin.), but aor. 2 γλυφέν [υ^] App.Anth.3.79 (Posidipp.), Ps.-Callisth.3.22, (δια-) Ael.VH14.7: pf. “γέγλυμμαι” AP9.752 (Ascl. or Antip. Thess.), Pl.Smp.216d, (ἐγ-) Hdt.2.106, but “ἐξ-έγλ-” Eup.331, Pl.R.616d:—carve, cut out with a knife, “ναῦς τ᾽ ἔγλυφεν” Ar.Nu.879; γ. σφρηγῖδας engrave them, Hdt.7.69, cf. Pl. Hp.Mi.368c; of sculptors, opp. γράφω, Hdt.2.46, Str.l.c.; ἔγλυψέν με σίδηρος, written under a statue, IG14.973:—Med., cause to be engraved, Theoc.l.c., Plu. l.c.
II. note down or write [on waxen tablets], “τόκους” AP11.289 (Pall.).
III. Pass., to be hatched, “ἕως γλυφῆναι τὰ ὠά” Antig.Mir.97. (Cf. Lat.glūbo 'peel', glūma 'husk', OHG. klioban 'cleave'.)
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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