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ὑπαλ-είφω ,
A.lay on, spread like salve: Med., “ὑπαλείφεσθαι φάρμακον” Pl.La.185c:—Pass., “ὑπαλειφθὲν ἔλαιον” Arist.Pr.967a4.
II. anoint, “κόμμι τὴν γνάθον” Hp.Art.33: metaph., “εἰρήνῃ τινὰ τὠφθαλμώ” Ar.Ach. 1029:—Med., anoint oneself, Hp.Acut.(Sp.）58, Ar.Pax898; ὑ. τοὺς ὀφθαλμούς paint one's eyes, X.Oec.10.5; “μύροις τὰς ῥῖνας” Alex.190 (v.l. ἐναλ-）; ἅτερος πρὸς τὸν ἕτερον ὑπαλείφεται one anoints himself to fight with the other, Com.Adesp.401:—Pass., have one's eyes anointed, “παρ᾽ ἰατρῷ” Ar.Fr.129; of the eyes, ὑπαληλιμμένοι painted, opp. ὑγιαίνοντες in their natural state, X.Oec.10.6.
III. line, i.e. be the lining of, “ὁ ἔνδον χιτὼν . . ὁ καὶ τὸν στόμαχον ὑπαλείφων” Gal.Nat.Fac.3.8; “ὁ χιτὼν . . ὁ ὑπαλείφων τὸ στόμα” Id.15.746, cf. 16.571.
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):
    • Aristophanes, Acharnians, 1029
    • Aristophanes, Peace, 898
    • Plato, Laches, 185c
    • Xenophon, Economics, 10.5
    • Xenophon, Economics, 10.6
    • Hippocrates, De articulis, 33
    • Galen, De naturalibus facultatibus, 3.8
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