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κατα-πλάσσω , Att. κατά-ττω , fut. -πλάσω [α^],
A.plaster over, “πηλῷ κατ᾽ ὦν ἔπλασε τοὺς ὀφθαλμούς” Hdt.2.70, cf. Arist.HA612a18; “ὄξει τὰ βλέφαρα” Ar.Pl. 721; “τὰ ὦτα κηρῷ” Plu.2.15d:—Pass., “καταπεπλασμένη ψιμυθίῳ” Ar. Ec.878; “κηρῷ” Arist.HA624a13:—Med., τὴν κεφαλὴν κατ᾽ ὦν ἐπλάσατο plastered her own head, Hdt.2.85, cf. D.S.1.72,91; τοῦτο καταπλάσσονται πᾶν τὸ σῶμα this they plaster over their whole body, Hdt.4.75:—Pass., “καταπλαττομένων ἢ ἐπιπλαττομένων” Phld.Mus. p.52K.
2. Medic., plaster or poultice, Hp.VC13, al.; also, apply as a plaster or poultice, in Pass., Dsc.4.87,88: metaph., c. gen., “θεὸς κ. τῶν ψυχῆς τραυμάτων” Ph.1.455.
3. metaph., καταπεπλασμένος, = καταπλαστός 11, Aristid.Or.28(49).101; τὸ κ. the artificial sound produced by stopping the higher notes in a flute, Quint.1.11.6.
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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    • Aristophanes, Ecclesiazusae, 878
    • Aristophanes, Plutus, 721
    • Herodotus, Histories, 2.70
    • Herodotus, Histories, 2.85
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    • Hippocrates, De capitis vulneribus, 13
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