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παρα-κάλυμμα [κα^], ατος, τό,
A.anything hung up beside or before so as to cover a thing, covering, curtain, Plu.Alex.51, etc.
2. metaph., veil, cloak, “τῶν κακῶν” Antiph.167; “ἀφεγγὲς λήθης π.” LXX Wi.17.3; “γήρᾳ π. τοῦ χρόνου ποιούμενος” J.AJ16.8.1; “π. τῆς ἡδονῆς τὸ σκότος προθέσθαι” Plu.2.654d; excuse, pretext, “τῇ λύρᾳ π. χρώμενος” Id.Per.4; “ἐχρήσατο τῆς ἀπορίας -καλύμματι” Id.2.27e, cf. Ph.2.186.
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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    • Flavius Josephus, Jewish Antiquities, 16.8.1
    • Plutarch, Alexander, 51
    • Plutarch, Pericles, 4
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