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περι-τήκω ,
A.melt, melt away, “τὸν σίδηρον” Hp.Vict.1.13 ; wash away, “γῆν” Pl.Criti.112a; “τῶν σωμάτων τὰ νοσερά” Herod.Med. ap. Orib.10.40.1 :—Pass., with pf. -τέτηκα, melt entirely, melt away, ἡ χιὼν π. Plu.2.648c ; “περιτετηγμένον ὀστέων πῆγμα” LXX 4 Ma.9.21 ; become emaciated, Hp.Prorrh.2.6, Aret.SD2.13 ; to be washed away, Arist.Mir.833b7.
II. τι καττιτέρῳ π. cover with a coat of tin, Pl.Criti.116b.
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 (3):
    • Plato, Critias, 116b
    • Plato, Critias, 112a
    • Aretaeus, De causis et signis acutorum morborum (lib. 2), 2.13
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