A.= ψίμυθος, white lead, used as a pigment, esp. to whiten the skin of the face, Ar.Ec.878,929, Amips.3, Dialex.2.6, etc.; even for the hair, Pl.Ly.217d; “ἐντετριμμένην ψιμυθίῳ” X.Oec.10.2; περιπεπλασμένη ψιμυθίοις . . , ἀνάπλεῳ ψιμυθίου, Eub.98, cf. Ar.Ec.1072; “τῷ ψ. κεχρισμένος” Jul.Or.7.233b; also used in salves, Gp.17.7.2, 18.15.3: for its preparation, v. Thphr.Lap.56. (Written ψιμίθιον in PCair.Zen.763.19, 789.11,12 (iii B. C.), IG5(1).1390.22 (Andania, i B. C.), POxy.1088.4 (i A. D.), PLond.3.928.21, PMed.Strassb.p.4 (ii A. D.), and as v.l. in Dsc.5.88, etc.; ψιμμύθιον Jul. l. c., v. l. in GP. Il. cc.; ψιμμίθιον as v. l. in Dsc. l. c.: Aeol. ψημύθιον , acc. to Choerob. in Theod.1.201 H., Id. in An.Ox.2.241 (Ion. acc. to EM103.25): v. ψιμυθιόω.) [υ_, Ar. ll. cc., etc.; ψι_^- indeterminate in these passages; ψι_μυ_θίου in a hexam. (Nic.Al.75) might be due to metrical lengthening of ψι^-: cf. ψίμυθος.]
ψιμύθ-ιον (v. infr.), τό,
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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