A.painting with the shadows (cf. σκιαγραφέω), so as to produce an illusion of solidity at a distance, scene-painting, “ς. ἀσαφεῖ καὶ ἀπατηλῷ χρώμεθα” Pl.Criti.107d; “σκιαγραφίαν ἀρετῆς περιγραπτέον” Id.R.365c, cf. 602d, Phd.69b, Numen. ap. Eus.PE14.5, 26; ἡ ς. καὶ τὰ ἐνύπνια, compared as being both illusory, Arist. Metaph.1024b23; ἡ δημηγορικὴ λέξις ἔοικε τῇ ς., i.e. in being calculated for effect, Id.Rh.1414a8, cf. D.C.52.7.
σκι^α_γρα^φ-ία , ἡ,
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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