A.spread or unfold over, “ἄωτον” Orph.A.1336: c. gen., “λέων . . γυῖα γῆς ἐφαπλώσας” Babr.95.2; “στῆθος ἐφαπλώσας . . ὄχθης” Nonn. D.15.9: c. dat., δίκτυα νεπόδεσσιν ἐ. ib.20.385; “ἐρετμοῖς χεῖρας” Orph. A.457: metaph., “ἐ. τὸ ἀγαθὸν διὰ τοῦ κόσμου” Hierocl.in CA21p.467M.:—Pass., τοὺς ἐμπροσθίους πόδας ἐφηπλῶσθαι ταῖς χερσί to have the skin of the front feet spread over the hands, Longus 1.20; σκότος ἐφήπλωται v.l. in Plu.2.167a.
ἐφαπλ-όω ,
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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