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κομψ-εύω ,
A.refine upon, κόμψευέ νυν τὴν δόξαν aye, quibble on the word δόξα (referring to the previous line), S.Ant.324:—mostly in Med., to be smart, ingenious, ἥδεσθαι κομψευόμενος to be fond of clever inventions, Hp.Art.70 (glossed πανουργευόμενος, Erot.); ὁ τοῦτο κομψευσάμενος he who invented this subtlety, Pl.R.489b; “πρέπει . . σοφιστῇ τὰ τοιαῦτα κομψεύεσθαι” Id.La.197d; κ. ὡς . . Id.R.436d: pf. Pass. in med. sense, αὐτὸ τοῦτο καὶ κεκόμψευται he has advanced this dainty paradox, Id.Phdr.227c; “οἱ τὰ πολιτικὰ κεκομψευμένοι” Ph.1.448.
2. Pass., of things, προσαγώγιον κεκομψευμένον neatly made, Pl.Phlb.56c; “ὁ λόγος ὑπὸ τῶν τοιούτων κεκόμψευται σχημάτων” D.H.Isoc.14.
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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    • Plato, Republic, 436d
    • Plato, Republic, 489b
    • Plato, Phaedrus, 227c
    • Plato, Philebus, 56c
    • Plato, Laches, 197d
    • Sophocles, Antigone, 324
    • Hippocrates, De articulis, 70
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