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προκάλυμμα [κα^], ατος, τό,
A.anything put before, veil, curtain, A.Ag. 691 (lyr., pl.).
2. covering, as a protection, Th.2.75; [“σὰρξ ὀστέων] π.” Ti.Locr.100b.
3. metaph., screen, cloak, “ἁμαρτανομένων λόγοι . . π. γίγνονται” Th.3.67; “τὸ σχῆμα τῆς θείας οἰκίας π. ποιούμενοι” Jahresh. 23 Beibl.285 (Ephesus); “τῆς ἐπιβουλῆς” J.BJ5.3.1; “τῆς βδελυρίας” Luc. Pseudol.31; “π. προβεβλῆσθαι τῆς αὐτομολίας” Id.Merc.Cond.5; γευμάτων ἀπατηλῶν π. ἡ χολή, in jaundice, Aret.SD1.15.
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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  • Cross-references in general dictionaries from this page (7):
    • Aeschylus, Agamemnon, 691
    • Flavius Josephus, The Jewish War, 5.3.1
    • Thucydides, Histories, 2.75
    • Aretaeus, De causis et signis acutorum morborum (lib. 2), 1.15
    • Thucydides, Histories, 3.67
    • Lucian, De mercede, 5
    • Lucian, Pseudologista, 31
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