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περιφάν-εια [φα^], ἡ,
A.conspicuousness, πολλὴ π. τῆς χώρης ἐστί it is thoroughly known, Hdt.4.24; “τοσαύτη π. τοῦ πράγματός ἐστι” D.45.2, cf. Is.7.28; “διὰ τὴν π. τῶν ἀδικημάτων” D.29.1 ; ἐκ π. ὁρᾶσθαι on every side, D.H.Comp.22,23 ; celebrity, distinction, Jul.Or.3.108d.
II. = ἐπιφάνεια 11, superficial appearance, Plu.2.674a.
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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    • Demosthenes, Against Aphobus, 1
    • Demosthenes, Against Stephanus 1, 2
    • Herodotus, Histories, 4.24
    • Isaeus, Apollodorus, 28
    • Dionysius of Halicarnassus, De Compositione Verborum, 22
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