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ποίκ-ιλμα , ατος, τό,
A.broidered stuff, brocade, A.Ch.1013; “ὑφάσμασι καὶ π.” Arist. Mete.375a23.
2. embroidery, “ὃς [πέπλος] κάλλιστος ἔην ποικίλμασιν” Il.6.294; ποικίλμασι κεκόσμηται [ἡ οἰκία] with various ornaments, X. Oec.9.2; “ὁ πέπλος μεστὸς τῶν . . π.” Pl.Euthphr.6c; “τὰ π. καὶ τὰ ζωγραφήματα καὶ τὰ πλάσματα” Id.Hp.Ma.298a; of the stars in heaven, Id.R.529c; “οὐρανοῦ δέμας Χρόνου καλὸν π.” CritiasFr.25.34D.
II. generally, variety, diversity, Pl.Lg.747a, Ti.67a; “τῶν ῥυθμῶν . . παντοδαπὰ π. προσαρμόττοντας τοῖσι φθόγγοις τῆς λύρας” Id.Lg.812e; “τὰ ἐν διαίτῃ π.” Epicur.Sent.Vat.69; “τὸ παντοδαπὸν π. τῶν φαινομένων” Phld.Sign.33.
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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    • Aeschylus, Libation Bearers, 1013
    • Plato, Laws, 812e
    • Plato, Laws, 747a
    • Plato, Republic, 529c
    • Plato, Euthyphro, 6c
    • Plato, Greater Hippias, 298a
    • Plato, Timaeus, 67a
    • Xenophon, Economics, 9.2
    • Homer, Iliad, 6.294
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