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πλάσμα , ατος, τό,
A.anything formed or moulded, image, figure, “πλάσματα πηλοῦ” Ar.Av.686 ; κήρινον . . οὐκ οἶδ᾽ ὅ τι π. as it were a piece of wax-work, Pl.Tht.197d, cf. 200c, Sph.239e ; of figures made by bakers, Men.113 : pl., cakes of incense, POxy.2144.29 (iii A.D.).
b. the body, as fashioned by the Creator, PMag.Par.1.212.
II. counterfeit, forgery, “π. ὅλον ἐστὶν ἡ διαθήκη” D.45.29.
b. figment, fiction, “πλάσματα τῶν προτέρων” Xenoph.1.22, cf. Arist.Cael. 289a6, Str.1.2.36, J.BJ1.1.2, Plu.Thes.28, etc. ; of a story which is fictitious but possible, opp. “ἱστορία” 11 and “μῦθος” 11.3, S.E.M.1.263, Aus. Prof.21.26, cf. Ph.1.528.
c. pretence, Phld.Vit.p.38 J., Plu.Mar. 43.
2. delusion, Phld.Lib.p.56O.
III. formed style in writing or speaking, “π. καὶ τὴν ἄλλην κατασκευὴν δημηγόρου” Id.Rh.1.199 S.; opp. τρόπος, σχῆμα, ib.164S.; π. ἱστορικόν, opp. ὑπαγωγικόν, D.H. Pomp.4 ; ἡνίκ᾽ ἂν ᾖ ποιητικὸν τοῦ λόγου τὸ π. Longin.15.8.
2. in music, affected execution, with trills, falsetto, etc., μετὰ πλάσματος αὐλεῖν, opp. ἀπλάστως, Thphr.HP4.11.5 ; of studied intonation in orators or actors, “π. φωνῆς ἀθόρυβον” Plu.Per.5, cf. 2.405d ; lectio plasmate effeminata, Quint.Inst.1.8.2 ; “ἀναγνώσεις μετὰ πλάσματος” Sor. 1.49.
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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