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shoot off arrows, ἀπὸ δένδρων D.C. 37.2: metaph., shoot off like an arrow, ῥηματίσκια Pl. Tht. 180a, cf. Luc. Rh.Pr. 17:— Pass., Id. Prom.Es 2.
sample, pattern, καρπῶν Isoc. 15.54, cf. POxy. 113.5 (ii A.D.); τοῦ βίου Ar. Ach. 988; λαβὼν δʼ Ἄδραστον δεῖγμα τῶν ἐμῶν λόγων taking him as evidence of . ., E. Supp. 354; μὴ . . αὐτοὶ καθʼ ὑμῶν αὐτῶν δ. τοιοῦτον ἐξενέγκητε D. 21.183; τοῦτο τὸ δ. ἐξενηνοχὼς περὶ αὐτοῦ Id. 19.12, cf. Pl. Lg. 788c; δείγματος εἵνεκα by way of sample, D. 23.65; δείγματος χάριν S.E. M. 11.40; δ. προφέρειν, ἐκτίθεσθαι, παρασχεῖν, Pl. Lg. 718b, Plb. 4.24.9, D.H. Rh. 6.5; δ. μικροψυχίας Men. Georg.Fr. 3; δ. ψυχῆς sign of life, Luc. Prom.Es 2 (s.v.l.); δ. φιλοσοφίας Ἀττικῆς Id. Scyth. 7; [ἀνδριάντα] δ. ἀρετᾶς θεμένα Epigr.Gr. 860.6, cf. IG 14.967, etc.
bite, sting, X. Mem. 1.3.12, Arist. HA 604b21, etc.: metaph., δ. λύπης A. Ag. 791 (lyr.); ἔρωτος S. Fr. 841; ψυχῆς cj. in Luc. Prom.Es 2.
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Subst. κωμικός, ὁ, comedian, i.e. either comic actor, Alex. 98.13; or comic poet, Plb. 12.13.3, Phld. Mus. p.16 K. (pl.), Plu. Adul. 2.62e, etc.; ὁ κ., κατʼ ἐξοχήν, = Aristophanes, Luc. Prom.Es 2, etc. Adv. -κῶς Ph. 1.473, D.L. 5.88.
2
baking, of bread, J. AJ 3.10.7, Ath. 3.109c (pl.); of pottery, BGU 1143.17 (i B. C.), Luc. Prom.Es 2.
working in clay, of bees, Lyr.Alex.Adesp. 7.16: Subst. π., ὁ, LXX Wi. 15.7, Luc. Prom.Es 2, PKlein.Form. 63 (vi A. D.).
Prometheus, opp. Ἐπιμηθεύς ( Forethought and Afterthought), Hes. Th. 510, cf. A. Pr. 85, Pl. Prt. 320d, PHib. 1.27.85 (iii B.C.), etc.; Προμαθέος Αἰδὼς [θυγάτηρ] Pi. O. 7.44; = Summanus, Gloss.: pl. Προμηθεῖς, οἱ, of workers in clay, Luc. Prom.Es 2.