A.hidden, secret, “κληῗδι κρυπτῇ” Il.14.168, cf. Ar.Th.422; “ἐπεποίητό οἱ κ. διῶρυξ” Hdt.3.146; κ. τάφρος a trench covered and concealed by planks and earth, Id.4.201: freq. in Trag., “κ. λόγος” A.Ch.773; “ἔπη” S.Ph.1112 (lyr.); κρυπτᾷ ἐν ἥβᾳ, of young Orestes who was concealed in Phocis, Id.El.159 (lyr.); “κ. πένθος” E. Hipp.139 (lyr.), etc.; “κρυπτῇ ψήφῳ” Arist.Rh.Al.1424b1; τῆς πολιτείας τὸ κ. the secret character of the [Spartan] institutions, Th.5.68; ἡ κρυπτή (sc. ἀρχή) secret service, used by the Athenians in the subjectstates, AB273; also, = κρυπτεία1, Heraclid.Pol.10; of persons, in disguise, Ar.Th.600, E.El.525: Medic., deep-seated, “καρκίνος” Hp.Aph. 6.38, Mul.2.133, Gal.5.116; “κ. πάθος” BGU316.28 (iv A.D.).
κρυπ-τός , ή, όν,
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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