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The corpus record

ἔγ-καυσις

egkausis · ἡ

encaustic painting

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What it meant

ἔγ-καυσις · eg-kausis — LSJ

encaustic painting

encaustic painting, IG 2.808d.52, 4.1484.266 (Epid., iv B.C.), SIG 977a.7 (Delos), IG 7.3073.11 (Lebad.), etc.

II heat-stroke

heat-stroke, Dsc. 5.13 (pl.), Gal. 12.504: pl., Plu. Sanit. 2.127b.

Where it came from

No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission. The etymological dictionaries (Beekes, Chantraine, Frisk) are matched incrementally.

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