The corpus record

λεύκ-ωμα

leukoma · τό

tablet covered with gypsum

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Where it lives

For The Soldier 1 · 11.53/10k
Tobias (cod. Vat. et Alex.) 5 · 9.52/10k
Against Timocrates 1 · 0.69/10k
Lives of Eminent Philosophers 1 · 0.09/10k

What it meant

λεύκ-ωμα · leuk-ōma — LSJ

tablet covered with gypsum, notice-board, proscription-list, album

tablet covered with gypsum, used as a public notice-board, ἐς λ. γράψαι, ἀναγράφειν, Lys. 9.6, Lex ap. D. 24.23, IG 12(5).647.40 (Ceos), PHib. 1.29.9 (iii B.C.), etc.: hence ἐν λευκώμασιν γραφῆναι to be posted in a list of defaulters, ‘to be sold up’, App.Prov. 2.63; of the proscription-list, D.C. 47.3; of the album of senators, Id. 55.3: hence οἱ τοῦ λ. senators, Procop. Arc. 29.

II whiteness

whiteness, Arist. Phgn. 813a28.

2 a white spot in the eye

a white spot in the eye, caused by a thickening of the cornea, PGrenf. 1.33.14 (ii B.C.), Dsc. 3.84, Gal. 14.775, Sammelb. 4414.6 (ii A.D.), Aët. 7.39 tit.

In the wild

λεύκωμα · leukōma Demosthenes, Against Timocrates 23 (DIORISIS sentence 72)
λεύκωμα · leukōma Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers 6.2 (DIORISIS sentence 4928)
λεύκωμα · leukōma Lysias, For The Soldier 6 (DIORISIS sentence 16)
λευκώματα · leukōmata Septuaginta, Tobias (cod. Vat. et Alex.) 11
λευκώματα · leukōmata Septuaginta, Tobias (cod. Vat. et Alex.) 11
λευκώματα · leukōmata Septuaginta, Tobias (cod. Vat. et Alex.) 2

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