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καλλωπ-ίζω , (ὤψ) prop.
A.beautify the face: hence, give a fair appearance to a thing, embellish, “κ. ὄνομα” Pl.Cra.408b, cf. 409c (Pass.), Phld. Hom.p.58 O.; “τὴν πόλιν, ὥσπερ γυναῖκα” Plu.Per.12; “τὸ λογικόν” Arr. Epict.3.1.26:—Pass., “οἰκία . . δαπάνῃ κεκαλλωπισμένη” X.Hier.11.2, cf. Oec.9.4; κεκ. τὸ Χρῶμα, i. e. painted, Id.Mem.2.1.22: metaph., λόγος κεκ., opp. καθαρός, Hermog.Id.1.3; λέξις κεκ. S.E.M.2.55.
II. Med., adorn oneself, make oneself fine or smart, Pl.Smp. 174a.
2. metaph., pride oneself in or on a thing, τινι Id.Phdr. 252a, X.Ages.11.11; “ἐπί τινι” Pl.R.405b: also “κ. ὅτι . . ” Id.Prt.317c; ὡς . . c. part., Id.Cri.52c, Tht.195d: abs., make a display, show off, Arist.Rh.Al.1421a4; of a horse, X.Eq.10.5: c. acc. cogn., “πολλὰ πρὸς αὑτούς” Phld.Rh.1.238 S.; ταῦτα -ίζεται makes a fair show, Iamb. Protr.20.
3. to be coy or mock-modest, τινι or πρός τινα towards another, Pl.Prt.333d, Phdr.236d: c. inf., κ. παραιτεῖσθαι affecting to deprecate, Plu.Caes.28, cf. Phalar.Ep.92.
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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