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καλλύν-ω , (καλός)
A.beautify, “νέα πρόσωπα” S.Fr.871.6:—Pass., Plot.6.1.20; “λίθῳ Λακαίνῃ” Them.Or.18.223a.
2. metaph., gloss over, “ὅταν ἐν κακοῖσί τις ἁλοὺς ἔπειτα τοῦτο καλλύνειν θέλῃ” S.Ant.496; εὐδιάβολον κακὸν κ. Pl. Lg.944b.
3. Med., pride oneself in a thing, Id.Ap.20c; “ἐπί τινι” Ael.VH3.19.
II. sweep clean, Arist.Pr.936b27, UPZ79.17 (ii B.C.); ὡς ῥαίνηται καὶ καλλύνηται [ἡ πλατεῖα] Plb.6.33.4.
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 (6):
    • Plato, Laws, 944b
    • Plato, Apology, 20c
    • Sophocles, Antigone, 496
    • Sophocles, Ichneutae, 871.6
    • Polybius, Histories, 6.33.4
    • Aelian, Varia Historia, 3.19
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